"If I do not conceal myself, he may be reminded to write something disagreeable about my lack of a crest or my appetite for scrap- iron; and although he is inexpressibly brilliant when he devotes himself to censure of folly and greed, his dulness is
matchless when he transcends the limits of legitimate comment."
a wonderful, a
matchless people!" said Kutuzov; and he closed his eyes and swayed his head.
His foibles - faults if you like - will never be dwelt upon in any memorandum of mine," he declares, and goes on - "he whose splendid and
matchless achievements will be remembered with admiration while there is gratitude in the hearts of Britons, or while a ship floats upon the ocean; he whose example on the breaking out of the war gave so chivalrous an impulse to the younger men of the service that all rushed into rivalry of daring which disdained every warning of prudence, and led to acts of heroic enterprise which tended greatly to exalt the glory of our nation."
but nourish them, and let them soar To what highth sacred virtue and true worth Can raise them, though above example high; By
matchless deeds express thy
matchless Sire.
So the Emperor went along in the procession under the splendid canopy, and all the people in the streets and at the windows said, 'How
matchless are the Emperor's new clothes!
There meet my gentle,
matchless brothers, there I come, the obscure poet, all unfit To wear the radiant jewellery of wit, And in their golden presence cloud the air.
I exulted in the boundless freedom of the design; the open air of that immense scene, where adventure followed adventure with the natural sequence of life, and the days and the nights were not long enough for the events that thronged them, amidst the fields and woods, the streams and hills, the highways and byways, hostelries and hovels, prisons and palaces, which were the setting of that
matchless history.
He came suddenly upon me as I was crossing a field in returning from a visit to Nancy Brown, which I had taken the opportunity of paying while Matilda Murray was riding her
matchless mare.
And then they all three cried, Sir Knight, we yield us unto you as man of might
matchless. As to that, said Sir Launcelot, I will not take your yielding unto me, but so that ye yield you unto Sir Kay the seneschal, on that covenant I will save your lives and else not.
For, though it be to solitudes remote The hoarse vague echoes of my sorrows sound Thy
matchless cruelty, my dismal fate Shall carry them to all the spacious world.
At the bottom of the steps she stands waiting, with a smile of ineffable joy, an attitude of
matchless grace and dignity.
Her voice is like the ripple of a woodland brook and her slender form is
matchless in its symmetry.