Then he would hasten back to his studio to find the miracle still Unaccomplished, and would passionately kiss the little cold hands, and lay beside the little cold feet the presents he knew that young girls loved-bright shells and exquisite precious stones, gorgeous-hued birds and fragrant flowers, shining amber, and beads that sparkled and flashed with all the most lovely combinations of colour that the mind of artist could devise.
"A Book of Myths"
Jean Lang
Of the actual version I can assure you with a good conscience that, according to my firm conviction, it is not unworthy of your original, which it renders adequately in the sense that one does not suspect a laborious translation, but might let it pass without hesitation for the German original of a not Unaccomplished German author.
"Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1"
Francis Hueffer (translator)
Now we cannot reasonably suppose that the Lord has acted lightly, and that He will now leave His work Unaccomplished.
"En Route"
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans