Adjective : unmixed joy. From Dictionary.com.
Here, again, the mere student of "unmixed" history may start up and say, "Why! this. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference
Total unmixed per batch, cu.ft. 8½ 13 20 24½ 34½ 46. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
Understand that none of these traits is an unmixed blessing. From Wordnik.com. [Measure Your Entrepreneurial Instinct] Reference
It should always be given alone, unmixed with anything else. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
It is of unmixed gold, weighing about two dollars and a half. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
This is not an unmixed delight, but blended with no small uneasiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
His plain, unromantic face showed deep anxiety, not unmixed with fear. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Glances of deep interest, unmixed with envy, were cast from the windows at. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
Bacchus, looking on the scene with a complacency not unmixed with surprise. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
For many reasons manures are often better applied in the unmixed condition. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
Immediately Bristles uttered a loud cry of astonishment, not unmixed with joy. From Wordnik.com. [Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School] Reference
We must conclude, therefore, that wars are not always evils unmixed with some good. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
And watching him with such intensity, at such close range, is not an unmixed pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [An 'American' in Italy, and in Existential Pain] Reference
The king uttered an exclamation of surprise, not unmixed with fear, at such amazing assurance. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
I take this occasion to bid the public an adieu not altogether, I confess, unmixed with regrets. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
Slowly, though, you realize that unmixed pleasure isn't part of the movie's plan, while aesthetic daring is. From Wordnik.com. [An 'American' in Italy, and in Existential Pain] Reference
When unmixed with other gases ozone is very explosive, changing back into oxygen with the liberation of heat. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
Yet the 58 percent vote in favor of constitutional reform on Sunday was not an unmixed victory for democracy. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Kinzer: New Turkey] Reference
One man who had a goatee gazed at it and stroked it with feelings of pride and admiration not unmixed with awe. From Wordnik.com. [Negritos of Zambales] Reference
Then he struck his level and fell back on his natural instinct, unmixed, with attempts at being what he was not. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
She courtesied reverently to the Judge, and contrived to make her reverence seem a willing homage, unmixed with fear. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
"Maastricht," says a senior U.S. official, "is one of those very rare things these days-a virtually unmixed blessing.". From Wordnik.com. [Europe Takes A Giant Stop] Reference
A programming director at Washington Top 40 station WWZZ (104.1 FM), Dale O'Brien, received an unmixed copy of the song. From Wordnik.com. [Rich Cronin, lead member of LFO pop trio, dies of leukemia at 36] Reference
They appeared to regard me with curiosity, not unmixed with distrust, for their boat swept aside to give me a wide berth. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
Her face had a cheery and agreeable expression, not unmixed with piquant archness and a sort of dainty, bewitching coquetry. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
The admixture with sand of a considerable percentage of loam or clay is also not the unmixed evil it has been supposed to be. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
Two other characters of the tragedies already alluded to, demand from the justice of criticism the most full and unmixed praise. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
I could not fail to notice the great respect with which my strange protector was treated, a respect seemingly not unmixed with awe. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
Under such conditions, it can scarcely be wondered at that its introduction should have proved not an unmixed blessing to agriculture. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
These colours were occasionally modified by mixture with chalk; but were always, or nearly always, applied singly, in an unmixed state. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
The feverish, pale blue eyes looked at him strangely with a regretful, wistful gaze, and he melted in a moment into unmixed gentleness. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
He aims in them to preserve unmixed the spirit of antique art, and thus to prove that the Germans are the true successors of the Greeks. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
The majority of its component parts, especially the more youthful units, seemed indeed to view me with admiration not unmixed with envy. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Pirate] Reference
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