What is "unheard"

Usage examples of "unheard".

It was rare, but not unheard of, for an analysand, tossed by tides of transference and desublimation, to seek the safety of Dr.

It was not unheard of for an anatomist to tote freshly deceased family members over to the dissecting chamber for a morning before dropping them off at the churchyard.

Such acceleration was unheard of, even on this field, where rules of astronavigation were scrapped daily and the laws of the space-lanes broken as a matter of course.

Even when these sounds had faded into silence, she remained where she was, hoping that Melia might fall asleep, so that she could enter the hut they shared unheard and unquestioned, but finally pain and thirst overcame her scruples and she staggered dazedly across the moonlit clearing, seeking the only sanctuary she knew.

Through infamies unheard of among men: She shall stand shelterless in the broad noon Of public scorn, for acts blazoned abroad, One among which shall be.

For an instant there was a stunned silence-- samurai, shishi, and all nearby slum dwellers equally shocked--the sound of rapid firing unheard of.

Then, slinking along the hedge, noiseless, unheard by my sleeping spaniel, I saw a tawny dog stealing by.

Beyond the tall and ominous glass-green forest of Troos, well to the North and unheard of in Bakshaan, Elwher or any other city of the Young Kingdoms, on the shifting shores of the Sighing Desert lay Tanelorn, a lonely, long-ago city, loved by those it sheltered.

XXII And when too restlessly the mighty throng Of fancies woke within his teeming mind, All silently they formed in glorious song, And floated off unheard, and undivined, Perchance not lost -- with many a voiceless prayer They reached the sky, and found some record there.

Spanish moss from the pillared veranda of an antebellum mansion by an imposing liveried black, the sun gleaming on the strong lineaments of his brow arching disdainfully as a decrepit horse and buggy bearing an aging woman and a handsome intense young man standing to snap his whip imperiously came close for an exchange of unheard words to be pointed scornfully on their way, glimpsed from behind a curtain by a ravishingly beautiful young woman in negligee in their retreat back down the drive.

Her blue-scabbed hands rubbed an unheard note off the drumskin to keep the flies away.

Arthur Hepplewhite would have made him a generous offer for his selection, but he had turned it down unheard, preferring his independence.

Note 2: During major holidays, it was not unheard of for government officials to obtain pardons for certain prisoners.

The voice of Peter speaking in anger was not likely to be unheard, and the stern mandate had scarcely issued from his lips, when a dozen of the common thief-takers of Vaud set about the affair in good earnest, and with the best possible intentions to effect their object.

There were a few Kline Station tokens, a comb, an empty raisin wrapper, his map module, his credit chit for his Betan funds for purchasing the new cultures-the creature under his heart howled, unheard, at that sight.