But it is my opinion that such settings as I offer will really please, and they may possibly do something to bring these tunes, which have a unique, unmatchable beauty, into favour with choirs that dislike the effort and waste of unison singing.
"A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing"
Robert Bridges
The oxidized, ugly, discolored silver is not so fashionable as it was, and the beautiful, bright, highly polished silver, with its own natural and unmatchable color, has come in.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
She hath sown pain and plague in all our house, Love loathed of love, and mates unmatchable, Wild wedlock, and the lusts that bleat or low, And marriage-fodder snuffed about of kine.
"Poems & Ballads (First Series)"
Algernon Charles Swinburne