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  • It was certainly a kind of consolation to the poor lady to feel that her husband had not departed unhouselled; but it is equally evident that her mind had given way, for the scenes that presently followed can be explained only on this assumption. 635

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • Hence, Plato introduces Socrates as observing that "the sages who introduced the Teletæ had positively affirmed that whatever soul should arrive in the infernal mansions _unhouselled_ and _unannealed_ should lie there immersed in mire and filth."

    Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy John Delafield

  • He trembled to think that if then he died in his bed he must be eternally damned, and she added her persuasions, such as that each soul that died in his realms before that letter was sent went before the Throne of Mercy unshriven and unhouselled, so that their burden of souls grew very great.

    The Fifth Queen Crowned Ford Madox Ford 1906

  • The disease rotted away his flesh till he died, limbless or faceless in fearful shipwreck, and unhouselled.

    Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England 1886

  • In some communities, of which Lechford tells us New Haven was one, these unhouselled Puritans were allowed, if they so desired, to stand outside the meeting-house door at the time of public worship and catch what few words of the service they could.

    Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • His conduct was censured by the church, and he was for a time deprived of partaking in the communion, for "absenting himself from the public services of the Sabbath;" but in a few weeks the unhouselled deacon was forgiven, and never attempted to "line" again.

    Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • The church-clock on the cliffs had struck four times; a deep-toned, weary bell, that tolled for every quarter, and must often have been heard, at dead of night, by dying men, drowning unshriven and unhouselled.

    Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

  • He saw the country in full dress, and had little or no opportunity of judging of it unhouselled, unanointed, unannealed, with all its imperfections on its head, as I and my family too often had.

    Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872

  • He saw the country in full dress, and had little or no opportunity of judging of it unhouselled, unanointed, unannealed, with all its imperfections on its head, as I and my family too often had.

    Life on the Mississippi, Part 9. Mark Twain 1872

  • He saw the country in full dress, and had little or no opportunity of judging of it unhouselled, unanointed, unannealed, with all its imperfections on its head, as I and my family too often had.

    Life on the Mississippi, Part 12. Mark Twain 1872

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