It was an unprecedented event in our navy, where it had been the pride and glory of the seamen to stand by their captain and their ship to the last man, and to die exultingly to save either.
It adopted, at the last extra session, the extraordinary and unprecedented resolution, that the people of the United States should not have such a bank, although it might be manifest that there was a clear majority of them demanding it.
This was an unprecedented event in the history of parties in America, or in England, and shows the length to which a bank party would go in stifling the right of speech.
He wanted to assemble something capable of emitting underwater noises of special quality and unprecedented power.
Then the underwater ear began to emit an unprecedented sound.
And the British mind, with a concentration and intensity unprecedented before the war, is speculating how it can contrive to get a different sort of ruler and administrator at work upon its affairs.
There can be no doubt that the British intelligence has grasped and kept its hold upon the real issue of this war with an unprecedented clarity.
The credit system has been strained, and will be strained, and will need unprecedented readjustments.
It has not only killed and wounded an unprecedented proportion of the male population of all the combatant nations, but it has also destroyed wealth beyond precedent.
The current bankruptcy and liquidation and the coming reconstruction of the economic system of Europe will go on in a quite unprecedented amount of light.
The United States constitute a modern country, a country on an unprecedented scale, being organised from the very beginning on modern lines.
The nineteenth century was a period of unprecedented modification of social relationships; but great as these changes were, they were trivial in comparison with the changes in religious thought and the criticism of moral ideals.
The opening decade of the twentieth century was a period of unprecedented abundance in everything necessary to human life, of vast accumulated resources, of leisure and release.
Shall we throw up the sponge, or shall we, in the spirit ofunprecedented sacrifice, march forward in our campaign, and endure hardness as good soldiers of Jesus Christ?
I offer you an unprecedented opportunity of psychological study, and you approach it in the spirit of a ballad-monger or a mountebank!
Black criticism came at an awkward moment for President Roosevelt, who was entering a heated campaign for an unprecedented third term and whose New Deal coalition included the urban black vote.
Opponents argued generally that the directive represented government by fiat, an unprecedented extension of executive power that imposed the armed forces on civilian society in a new and illegal way.
This circumstance was very likely to result, he feared, in an army composed to an unprecedented degree of poorly educated black soldiers, possibly as much as 30 percent in the near future.
I want to direct the attention of the Court to this unprecedented tampering with the jury, by this gratuitous exhibition of matter impertinent and irrelevant to the issue.
The Irish members exhausted every resource of parliamentary action in resisting it, and their tactics resulted in several scenes unprecedented in parliamentary history.
Now came John Quincy Adams, calling himself a Democrat, but really inheriting the principles of his father, and the contest which ensued for the presidency wasunprecedented in the history of the country.
Tilden, a political star of the first magnitude, and the contest which followed was unprecedented in American history.
Circumstances among us, going back to our earliest history, have given unprecedented activity to these two incompatible principles, and have at last brought them into bloody battle, face to face.
I might remind them of the inability of private charity, or any effort organized by private individuals, to meet all the exigencies of this unprecedented case, although the generosity of our people is overflowing.
Surely I am right in saying that Congress ought not to turn a deaf ear to this unprecedented prayer.
It is not to be supposed that this immense, unprecedented growth of outward activity can have been gained without some corresponding loss.
There had been a scandalous, an unprecedented scene.
I saw it and appreciated it, and I appreciate still more your present kindness to me, an unprecedented kindness, worthy of your noble hearts.
So vivid that our Lord's spirit is said to have been quickened, made more alive, as He passed in.
He was gazing anxiously at the floor, for he had good reason to be troubled, though the reflection that he had been alone with the king, and the unprecedented act had occurred without witnesses, somewhat soothed him.
The Netherlander had intentionally commenced a conversation on art, and it was almostunprecedented to find Philip disinclined to enter into one.
In addition to this, owing to the unprecedentedimmigration of ignorant Europeans to supply the labour demand, we acquired a sinister proletariat of unskilled economic slaves.
One or two instances of striking andunprecedented experiences of the night of Monday must be recorded before this part of the subject, which is, in itself, enough to fill a volume, is dismissed.
Which of these trades does Paris think she is going to develop on a hitherto unprecedented scale?
She presented demands for reparation running to vast, unprecedented sums.
It is an unprecedented situation, and so far the English people have borne it almost in silence.
They hurled themselves against the British with unprecedented ferocity.
The power of the explosion was unprecedented in the history of steam; its effect was like that of a mine of gunpowder.
The following American account, will show what law, what justice, and what a jury is to be found in this region of unprecedented barbarism!
It was an unprecedented thing to do, or, at least, unprecedented at Brimfield, and the audience voiced its disapproval strongly.
This is unprecedented partiality, and directly contrary to the statute.
The following is an instance of unprecedented turpitude.
The capaciousness, the glitter and the cluttering of splendor in the interior were regarded as of unprecedented lavishness in the United States.
An unprecedented demand gave the farmer an extraordinary price for his produce.
The year 1830 was an unprecedented one in the annals of foreign life at Canton, by reason of the coming to the Factories of several English and American ladies from Macao, in 'direct opposition to old regulations.
The same year was notable for the hitherto unprecedented event of the marriage at Macao of a young American lady, Miss Shillaber, of Boston, to Doctor Thomas R.
