Constance had been wondering how she could inform Tony that his aunt and sister had arrived, without unbending from the dignified silence of the past three days. From Wordnik.com. [Jerry Junior] Reference
Strict, kind of unbending fundamentalist religions is the way they were both brought up. From Wordnik.com. [Nixon's Failed Attempts At 'Poisoning The Press'] Reference
Tensions had escalated after an "unbending" Gqozo had refused to allow the marchers into Bisho and the ANC had insisted that they be allowed to continue the march. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The disadvantage is that if taken too far this kind of unbending hubris is a one-way ticket to failure. From Wordnik.com. [How To Split An Atom] Reference
Symes moved among his satellites with that benign unbending which is a recognized attribute of the truly great. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady Doc] Reference
If the principal, instead of being a public man, is a man of science, this kind of unbending becomes certainly not the less welcome to him. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries] Reference
With an unbending look she beckoned him towards her. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
"Christopher Hyslop Hoogan," said Toddles, unbending. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
It is so superbly stately -- so unbending to the breeze. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
It was Lil who was the cause of Monsieur Dorn's unbending. From Wordnik.com. [Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
Greeks, the strict and unbending government of your slaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
In real life, we tend not to give props to unbending people. From Wordnik.com. [Cindy Handler: The New "Greed Is Good"] Reference
We have been stubborn to an extreme, unbending and insensitive. From Wordnik.com. [Bradley Burston: Yom Kippur, 2010 -- I Plead Guilty] Reference
He had been brought up in the most unbending school of Toryism. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
Guizot was there early, pale and troubled, but stern and unbending. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
Odd then, that the hemp agrimony behind should stand tall and unbending. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Bedfordshire] Reference
He had not been quite so stern and unbending, even in his passion, as before. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
And Blaisette plumed herself on being the cause of this wonderful unbending of his. From Wordnik.com. [Where Deep Seas Moan] Reference
Lord Bacon says most truly: "Too much bending breaks the bow; too much unbending, the mind.". From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
Mary Rose looked sadly after the retreating figure which looked as friendly and unbending as a poker. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Rose of Mifflin] Reference
His relatives fought in vain against his unbending resistance, and finally sent him to Pavia, to study law. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians] Reference
Webster and the other New England tariff advocates were there, and as unbending as the Southerners themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Expansion and Conflict] Reference
As early as September 18th, 1899, the Transvaal sent an unbending and defiant message to the British Government. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
De Mesy, of a proud and unbending temper, quarrelled with his Council, sneered at the settlers, and governed with. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Suddenly she stiffened until her body was straight and unbending as steel, and the strength came back to her slowly. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Cross] Reference
The more untamed and unbending she seems, the more helpless will she be under the strong excitement of love or grief. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of an Old Maid] Reference
He blames his comrades for their stiff, unbending manners, and for their non-conformance to the customs of the country. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
I have been told that he was quite a different man at sea, that there he was harsh, unbending and stern, but still just. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
They expected him to limp away, a crushed and broken old man; but they had yet to learn the unbending spirit of the Padre. From Wordnik.com. [When Dreams Come True] Reference
Accustomed to obey the unbending will of their lord, they still pay homage to it, though it is no longer a thing of this world. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Whig and Tory, landowner, manufacturer, and labourer were united in unbending determination to destroy the power of the Corsican. From Wordnik.com. [The Wars Between England and America] Reference
The formerly unbending prosecutor sang in falsetto and shared a tango with "" Victor/Victoria's '' Julie Andrews -- dressed as a man. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen Of New York] Reference
As soon as the arm is straight overhead, you should give yourself the suggestion that it is as rigid and unbending as a bar of steel. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis] Reference
Unable to form any conclusion he fell to thinking of their friendship and of the gentle nature of the man, the unbending faith of him. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
He sat and talked to her with a magnificent unbending, and she took his airs as no more than his right, and was well contented with them. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
Washington accepted his childlessness with the same unbending discipline that governed his whole life, isolating him from all but a handful of people. From Wordnik.com. [The Most Human Of Heroes] Reference
"I am," said Everett Dirksen, leader of Senate Republicans from 1959 through 1969, "a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.". From Wordnik.com. [Handicapped On The Hill] Reference
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