unreckonable
Example Sentences
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Jerichow, Mecklenburg, is Johnson’s answer to Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County: a setting, both mythic and mundane, for interlocking novels that aspire to a historical reckoning but finally find history unreckonable.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 26, 2018
Feckless lamentation, yes, but also a poetic form for an unreckonable history.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 26, 2018
The mind blanks at this sheer volume of commentary generated with every elapsing second, this unreckonable tonnage of weigh-ins.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 17, 2015
The most ordinary wish, that was written down with wearisome recurrence, was, of course, for wealth, wealth, wealth, in sums from a few shillings up to unreckonable thousands.
From The Intelligence Office (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
This tree is of unreckonable antiquity; so old, that in a record of the time of Edward IV. it is styled the yew tree of Braithwaite Green.
From Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
