Memory could only re-give her, with single, passive fidelity, what she had seen, unmodified, motionless, unenlivened, like a picture of her boy on canvas.
"Essays Æsthetical"
George Calvert
The child felt it from the first; there was no hugging nor exclaiming as that lady drove her away-there was only a frightening silence, unenlivened even by the invidious enquiries of former years, which culminated, according to its stern nature, in a still more frightening old woman, a figure awaiting her on the very doorstep.
"What Maisie Knew"
Henry James
Her station in exile at the Wells of the weariful rich, under the weight of the sullen secret, unenlivened by Dudley's courtship, subdued her to the world's decrees; phrased thus: 'I am not to be a heroine.
"One of Our Conquerors, Complete"
George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009