The author of numerous unperformed plays. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : to perform miracles. ,to perform the marriage ceremony. ,Perform what you promise. ,to perform a juggling act. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : to perform in the role of Romeo. From Dictionary.com.
There are unperformed rites and something left wounded and unkilled. From Wordnik.com. [Prologue] Reference
"I don't know anything about what unperformed duties he might have.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
In Vietnam, however, their music remained unperformed until the 1990s. From Wordnik.com. [A Musical Homecoming in Hanoi] Reference
If their tasks were unperformed, or the driver lost his temper, they were whipped again. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference
Why, Billy was there alone, in the halfway house -- and Billy's duty was still unperformed. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
One should never allow these daily exercises to go unperformed on the pretext of lack of time. From Wordnik.com. [Poise: How to Attain It] Reference
The Flea is considering staging a full production of it or another unperformed play by Inge this fall. From Wordnik.com. [Out of Kansas and On Stage] Reference
And yet how grossly are these solemn vows left unperformed, and even never thought of in all after life!. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Home] Reference
The boy took two or three steps toward obeying, then, as if remembering some duty unperformed, turned and came back. From Wordnik.com. [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference
“At least, they shall say of me,” thought this exemplary man, “that I leave no public duty unperformed or ill-performed!”. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Letter] Reference
Did you not, by insult and menace, force a pious brother to leave unperformed the act of penance in which he had engaged himself?. From Wordnik.com. [The Italian] Reference
(In case you're wondering, Wiggin's book dates from 1914; Bartók composed his version in 1911, but it remained unperformed until 1918.). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
His was guileless character, a courteous address, that left no promise unperformed either towards his own household or his fellow-citizens. From Wordnik.com. [The Suppliants] Reference
"And leave a duty unperformed?" inquired Ridge, teasingly. From Wordnik.com. ["Forward, March" A Tale of the Spanish-American War] Reference
Month after month passed away, and the engagement was unperformed. From Wordnik.com. [The Scottish Chiefs] Reference
The unperformed, more gigantic than ever, advance, advance upon me. From Wordnik.com. [Poems By Walt Whitman] Reference
The show could've been two hours with fan favourites left unperformed. From Wordnik.com. [Expecting Rain] Reference
The thought impressed itself upon me that I had left duties unperformed. From Wordnik.com. [The Blithedale Romance] Reference
The promise, however, remained unperformed, and Diego Mendez unrewarded. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II)] Reference
The play must be an original, unpublished and unperformed work in English. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
If the bear dance were left unperformed, they would hardly hope for success. From Wordnik.com. [History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians] Reference
On they swept, one unperformed task treading upon the heel of its predecessor. From Wordnik.com. [The Wall Between] Reference
My friends, eloquent unperformed speech, in Parliament or elsewhere, is horrible!. From Wordnik.com. [Latter-Day Pamphlets] Reference
Years of the unperformed! your horizon rises -- I see it part away for more august dramas. From Wordnik.com. [Poems By Walt Whitman] Reference
The statement goes on to say, "Avalon will not be paid for incomplete or unperformed work.". From Wordnik.com. [News First Colorado - KOAA.com] Reference
His duties continued unperformed, and he fell into contempt both with himself and with others. From Wordnik.com. [The System of Nature, Volume 1] Reference
If you have a unperformed Clickbank niche site, Please let me know, I want to buy it from you. From Wordnik.com. [Digital Point Forums] Reference
Especially they desired to know what rites had been neglected, and what solemnity left unperformed. From Wordnik.com. [Stories From Livy] Reference
He dare not follow him to London, and must leave to-night for the nearest seaport, his errand all unperformed. From Wordnik.com. [The Slowcoach] Reference
They utterly failed in any part of the transaction except bringing me in a large bill for service unperformed. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1] Reference
This weekend though Radio 4 broadcasts a previously unperformed play which grew out of an abandoned movie script. From Wordnik.com. [Craig Murray] Reference
At every station that day, pay had been taken for service unperformed, and it was more than once demanded twice over. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland] Reference
"At least, they shall say of me," thought this exemplary man, "that I leave no public duty unperformed or ill-performed!". From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Letter] Reference
They remove it, and the sacrifice they leave unperformed; and what they can do, they adore the Divinity in gentle murmurs. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII] Reference
But he had another task to perform before he went to bed, which he would fain have kept unperformed were it possible to do so. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite] Reference
“At least, they shall say of me,” thought this exemplary man, “that I leave no public duty unperformed, nor ill performed!”. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Letter] Reference
Neither man nor dog can tell what agonies he suffered; and doubtless his tortures of mind about duty unperformed were the worst of all. From Wordnik.com. [Erema — My Father's Sin] Reference
But he would have reproached himself more if he had wished less to guard against the acceptance of an equivalent for duties unperformed. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Muse] Reference
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