Clarence hastened to him; and bending over his countenance saw that even through the rapid changes and shades of death, it darkened with the peculiar characteristics of the unreleased soul within: the brow was knit into more than its wonted sternness and pride; and in the eye which glared upon the opposite wall, the light of the waning life broke into a momentary blaze,-that flash, so rapid and evanescent, before the air drinks in the last spark of the being it has animated, and night-the starless and eternal-falls over the extinguished lamp!
"The Disowned, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The plan was to take him to sea in a sailing vessel, and to keep him there, until the Fenian prisoners still at that time unreleased were set at liberty.
"The Life Story of an Old Rebel"
John Denvir
Through it all Grace maintained an unreleased solemnity, a mournful superiority, a grim forbearance.
"The Captives"
Hugh Walpole