What is "unequalled"

Usage examples of "unequalled".

Yet was there a stranger guest among us who did all this and more with unblenching brow, unruffled self-possession, unequalled courtesy, who, if discovered, would have been arrested and consigned to a lock-up, only to be exchanged for the gloom and the manacles of the condemned cell.

The ensign and his soldiers stood to their arms: while the faint echo of the musket-sound conveyed to the watchful bushranger the fatal intimation that some discovery had taken place on shore which could bode only ill to him, from the junction of the parties now united for his destruction, and which required the exercise of all his cunning and unequalled daring to guard against and to repel.

I had wished to carry away on my own person, as a curiosity, an ornament, a specimen of the work of the Japanese tattooers, who have a delicacy of finish which is unequalled.

Her face, therefore, like that of the gentleman, was perfectly unknown to the two concierges, who were perhaps unequalled throughout the capital for discretion.

Italy has little to envy in other literatures, and has numerous masterpieces, which are unequalled the whole world over.

Their glorious institutions, their unequalled freedom, were, of course, not left unsung.

Still fewer are acquainted with that delightful host of French female writers, whose memoirs and letters sparkle in every page with unequalled felicity of style.

The future mistress threw a good deal of vim into her walk and talk, doing all in a business-like manner, determined that Haughton Hall should be unequalled for luxurious comfort.

The overall, finished epic, when brought together at last, would be a masterpiece unequalled by any artist past or present - I knew so beyond a doubt.

The medical literature resulting was proving of unequalled scientific value.

For height, perfection of lighting, gloss, shine, and purity of atmosphere they were unequalled in the county.

Latterly, I have observed that he takes no share in these sports, probably from a conviction of his own unequalled skill.

Divine mandate of Christ Himself, who commanded His followers to abstain from vain repetitions, and who has left behind Him a petition which is unequalled for sublimity, as if expressly to rebuke the disposition of man to set up his own loose and random thoughts as the most acceptable sacrifice.

He could, indeed, curse with a richness of vocabulary in a roundness of tone unequalled by any other man in Fecamp.

Now as Shibli Bagarag paced up one of the streets of the city, he beheld a multitude in procession following one that was crowned after the manner of kings, with a glittering crown, clad in the yellow girdled robes, and he sporting a fine profusion of hair, unequalled by all around him, save by one that was a little behind, shadowed by his presence.