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It shared something of the nature of that silence through which it accompanied you into unexplored depth...

Jim , 256

EXPRESSIBLE — INEXPRESSIBLE

EXPRESSIVE — INEXPRESSIVE

The death of a close friend in the war was an overwhelm­ ing tragedy that could still cause him fits of inexpres­ sible sorrow.

Diplomat, 367

...the sense of intimacy filled her with inexpressible yearning...

EXTINGUISH ABLE — INEXTINGUISHABLE

Where have I read? — some story — of an inextinguish­ able spark.

Egoist, 578

...he did use his hand, and he did seek iron actualities with a curiosity inextinguishable.

Arrowsmith, 84

FAILING — UNFAILING

“ But you can’t, you know,’ ’ was the unfailing rejoinder.

Abyss, 355

The tick of the clock stabbed her with an unfailing fear.

Hullo, 141

FAIR — UNFAIR

FAIRLY — UNFAIRLY

FAIRNESS — UNFAIRNESS

All was fair in love and war, but this was taking an un­

fair advantage.

Some Came, 289

But you know how unfair people often are.

Woman, 96

For, say what you would, she was certainly acting very unfairly and captiously in all this.

Tragedy, 489

I don’t want, indeed, Sir Ensor Doone, to accuse anyone unfairly.

Lorna, 23

...the anger... had increased over the unfairness of the whole deal...

Crusaders, 378

A feeling of tragic unfairness was with her all the way back to South Square.

End, 174

FAITHFUL — UNFAITHFUL

FAITHFULLY — UNFAITHFULLY

FAITHFULNESS — UNFAITHFULNESS

Hullo, 206

A million Jobs faithfully and unfaithfully pursued...

End, 307

...notwithstanding Laetitia’s praiseworthy zeal in at­

tending on his mother, he suspected some unfaithful­

ness...

Egoist, 57

FALLIBLE — INFALLIBLE

...the infallible flare of the public for anything dra­

matic...

End, 53

And to talk about holidays abroad is one of the almost infallible marks of the stuck up...

Room, 150

FALTERING — UNFALTERING

I saw only the reality of his destiny, which he had known how to follow with unfaltering footsteps ...

Jim , 209

... she had wanted so much to leave imprinted on his mind that image of her unfaltering love and happiness.

To that familiar end he came by an unfamiliar route...

Marriage, 396

Below him flowed a wide and sluggish river. Its in­ familiarity puzzled him.

Love, 32

Her own unfamiliarity and hence fear of it.

Typhoon, 87

FASTEN — UNFASTEN

The bolts of the door were rusty and difficult to unfas­ ten without noise.

Curiosity, 116

Samuel... unfastened the catch of the window...

Wives, 252

FAVOURABLE — UNFAVOURABLE

FAVOURABLY — UNFAVOURABLY

FAVOUR — DISFAVOUR

They put the rules of law, favourable or unfavourable, under the judge’s thumb and nose.

their backs or looked another way, or at the two young men (not unfavourably at them), and let her to her­ self.

Curiosity, 178

Not the least thing must occur in connection with you that anyone can comment on unfavourably.

FETTERED — UNFETTERED

...were he free and unfettered, a few minutes would place him by her side.

Posthumous, 99

It was therefore satisfying to see MacGregor at least physically unfettered by the country which seemed to be his own.

Diplomat, 405

FIDELITY — INFIDELITY

But all things are possible; women are women; they swim in infidelity, from wave to wave.

Egoist, 74

...1 really hadn’t been up to some infidelity!

Poor, 71

FILIAL — UNFILIAL

“I have seen a good deal of what is filial in my times, Sir,” retorted Mould, “ and what is unfilial too.”

Martin, 391

It was most unfilial, but he was like that — so was Mrs. Flynn.

Pomona's, 133

FINISHED— UNFINISHED

...she’d have the excuse to... slip the unfinished letter away...

Hullo, 84

“ No,” she said and left it provokingly unfinished.

Diplomat, 135

FIT — UNFIT

FITTED — UNFITTED

FITTING — UNFITTING

...which rendered it quite unfit not merely for gentle­ manly food, but for any human consumption.

Curiosity, 74

Leave my house. You are unfit to enter it.

Ideal, 228

...it was a little unkind as well as idle to thus publicly force upon a temperament as yet unfitted to absorb their import, religious and psychic services...

Tragedy, 13

A good many of the new lock-keepers... are excitable nervous old men quite unfitted for their post.

Three, 201

That was perhaps a theme unfitting to touch upon...

Tribute, 67

FIX — UNFIX

...still fixed by Mr. Carker’s eye, and fruitlessly endeav­ ouring to unfix himself.

Dombey, 11, 182

Her look was cold, wide, unfixed, with nothing of grat­ itude or of personal in it.

Egoist, 282

FLEXIBLE — INFLEXIBLE

FLEXIBLY — INFLEXIBLY

He was inflexible, and with the growing loneliness of his obstinacy his spirit seemed to rise above the ruins of his existence.

Jim , 371

This prodigal use of cold wafer... was his inflexible habit...

Hatter's, 71

Isaac Ford was gone, but he, his son, carried on the good work at least as inflexibly if not as masterfully.

House, 220

FLINCHING — UNFLINCHING

Michael’s eyes were unflinching.

Tomorrow, 292

He was as formidably shameless, and mesmerically implacable as a cat, with that thin smile and unflinch­ ing stare.

End, 62

FOLD — UNFOLD

Yates was folding and unfolding the copy of Abramovici’s transcript.

Crusaders, 742

She unfolded the sheet she had taken from the letter.

End, 169

FORESEEN — UNFORESEEN

However, it will be tough going, and plenty of unfore­ seen difficulties can upset you.

Diplomat, 278

...knowing that, unless some hitherto unforeseen aid should eventuate, he was heading straight toward a disaster...

Tragedy, 444

FORGIVABLE — UNFORGIVABLE

FORGIVEN — UNFORGIVEN

FORGIVING — UNFORGIVING

He should never believe that we know the use of useful things. That would be unforgivable.

Woman, 118

To this lady self is the unforgivable intruder.

End, 109

Pardon me, Sir, but I am still unforgiven.

Egoist, 483

MacGregor blushed and sat rigid and hostile and silent

and unforgiving.

Diplomat, 496

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I am unforgiving when I have been offended.

Egoist, 114

FORGOTTEN — UNFORGOTTEN

...on that island his skill as a marksman was unforgot­

ten.

Koolau, 236

...the girl’s golden week or two of ease became an unfor­

gotten dream.

Hurly-Burly, 25

FORMAL — INFORMAL

FORMALLY — INFORMALLY

FORMALITY — INFORMALITY

The chef, who provided luncheons, teas, formal and informal dinners, and even breakfasts... was another

Argentinian.

Stoic, 163

...he considered for a moment the idea of visiting the office, not, of course, to work, but merely, in an in­

formal way...

Hatter's, 658

In view of the informality of our original arrangements...

we took the liberty of calling informally to present

ourselves.

Diplomat, 46

The chairs were arranged meeting-fashion, but a little irregularly to suggest informality.

Marriage, 297

FORTUNATE — UNFORTUNATE

FORTUNATELY — UNFORTUNATELY

But here again he was immediately fortunate yet ulti­ mately unfortunate, for it is said one of the men was drowned...

Who Knew, 23

I offer no judgement upon these unfortunate events...

Poor Man, 40

At this moment, glancing out of the bay window...

his eye unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately chanced to light on the figure of Soames...

Man, 176

Unfortunately, or fortunately, all according to the way you see it.

From Here, 371

FREQUENT — INFREQUENT

FREQUENTLY — INFREQUENTLY

FREQUENTED — UNFREQUENTED

is deploying is indeed a not infrequent defect of con­ versation between Englishmen and Americans.

Brit ling, 15

At home there had been often the most unsightly things visible, one of Theo’s awful caps, or his school books, and not infrequently her father’s well-worn and all too fatally comfortable house slippers.

Marriage, 230

The curtains were always heavy, frequently brocaded and not infrequently red.

. .. a road to the southeast which passed through a poor and decidedly unfrequented rural section...

Tragedy, 482

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