What is "unheard-of"

Usage examples of "unheard-of".

Cabral made commercial settlements at Calicut and the neighboring town of Cochin, and came home with unheard-of riches in spice, pearls and gems.

With unheard-of temerity Judge Cradlebaugh opened his court and proceeded to make Mormondom answer for the massacre.

Inexplicable abilities, unexpected habits, unforeseen physical aptitudes, and unheard-of industries are exercised by means of organs which are here and there practically identical.

The Greek and Roman writers had mentioned this practice, but it was long totally forgotten by the civilized world, until it was discovered, as an unheard-of wonder, to be the usage among the Carib Islanders, and several Indian tribes in North America.

There was nothing left for me but to put a good face on the matter, not only so as not to shew myself a very silly being, but also in order not to prove myself shamefully ungrateful towards a man who had granted me unheard-of privileges.

From the weary tone of some of the grumbling baggage handlers, Seven guessed that power outages and blown bulbs were not entirely unheard-of at this airport.

His proscriptions, confiscations, butcheries, unheard-of cruelties which anticipated and surpassed those of the French Revolution of 1793, availed nothing.

Them feeling that compassion which his unheard-of torments should have excited.

You will be surprised, sir, at what I am going to tell you, for I have determined to bring before you a complaint of an unheard-of character.

Bill and June and the two older kids went along with him the way they do did when he gets excited and starts verbalizing, which is rare but far from unheard-of.

You can imagine also the petty jealousies centring round the fact that American officers monopolize all the taxis, drink up all the whisky and have inflated the rents of furnished rooms to unheard-of levels.

Is my mind tottering at last, or has my unwarranted curiousity evoked unheard-of horrors from the twilight spaces?

There's nothing more dismissible in political prime time than a newly elected, unheard-of congressman from an unknown district.

The Eastern Shore baseball league, composed of six natural rivals, including Easton, Crisfield, Chestertown and Patamoke, flourished and became notorious for having produced Home Run Baker, who would hit in one year the unheard-of total of twelve round-trippers.

In the press his name had been given as Dorkins, and he'd been a charter pilot for some unheard-of outfit.