uncomplaining courage. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Even my sister, who generally went along with every one of dad’s Saturday afternoon schemes in a kind of uncomplaining trance, seemed mildly put out by the presence of the bag. From Wordnik.com. [Court Out « A Fly in Amber] Reference
I never knew anybody so patient and uncomplaining. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
Patient, uncomplaining endurance always excites pity and sympathy. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
The western inhabitants are not a silent and uncomplaining sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
He worked on, however, and bravely did his uncomplaining wife assist him. From Wordnik.com. [A Child of the Glens or, Elsie's Fortune] Reference
Thus, serene and considerate, has X. gone his uncomplaining way for years. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 4, 1917] Reference
Their sufferings are majestic in simple heroism and uncomplaining endurance. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe] Reference
For a moment he would meet that quiet gaze, lucid, uncomplaining, but very sad. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
Indeed, he went beyond simple uncomplaining fortitude, and said, "we glory in tribulation". From Wordnik.com. [When the Holy Ghost is Come] Reference
What grateful love went forth to her as she pressed the lips of her uncomplaining husband. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Rosamond's Secret A Romance of Fredericton] Reference
She especially hated meek, gentle, uncomplaining people, and loved to render them uncomfortable. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
He was still amiable and uncomplaining; but his elasticity, his free-hearted joyousness was gone. From Wordnik.com. [A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren] Reference
When we arrived at the park the next day, he woke from a four-hour car nap groggy but uncomplaining. From Wordnik.com. [To the Top of Half Dome and Beyond] Reference
Nevertheless, silent and uncomplaining, he came and sat down quietly by the side of Arthur in the stern. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
I bandaged him with our handkerchiefs, Bass, as always, uncomplaining and treating the wound humorously. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915] Reference
They remain mute and uncomplaining, just as they have been dropped down from the incoming oxen transports. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915] Reference
Indeed, I believe he sometimes proceeded beyond reproaches toward his helpless and now uncomplaining victim. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
With uncomplaining patience he had suffered much, but welcome rest came to him on the morning of Wednesday, 22nd. From Wordnik.com. [The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics] Reference
And yet she would sooner have faced ten lions than me, with my Italian courtesy and my uncomplaining good temper. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
Patience is not half a virtue when it simply implies an uncomplaining endurance because one thinks he must endure. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference
They are uncomplaining, but not a few of their friends wonder why Mrs. Clinton is allowing her aides to slowly twist. From Wordnik.com. [First Fighter] Reference
'I had better leave you now, Madge,' said Paul, half maddened by the sight of the uncomplaining grief he had awakened. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
For seven years the people have borne with uncomplaining courage the tremendous burden of national and local taxation. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
She is the most indomitable little creature living, heroic, uncomplaining, self-forgetful, and will yet 'die in harness.'. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
Then Beth would lie still sobbing silently, and wretched as only a lonely, uncomprehended, and uncomplaining child can be. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
In later years the nation joined with her son in paying honor to the memory of this noble, overworked, uncomplaining woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Big Jerry, uncomplaining ever, day by day grew more feeble and pain-wracked, and so became more and more a dear burden to her. From Wordnik.com. ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference
Patient, hopeful, uncomplaining she lived through the four years of war-time separation, left her own people and journeyed to the. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
She used to wonder at the young man's uncomplaining fortitude, his gentleness, gratitude, and unselfish concern about her fatigue. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
The consequence was the most profound disheartenment, endured in silence, with the exquisite uncomplaining fortitude of a little child. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
He faced the wind and the rain, the snow of winter, the fearful dust-storms of alkali desert wastes, with the same uncomplaining quiet. From Wordnik.com. [Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads] Reference
For the third time that night they were handed into the "uncomplaining but over-worked taxicab," according to Nora's version, and set out for the Southard home. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
Still, it must have been a joy to them when children came to play about the lonely house, and mingle their merry laughter with the sad sighing sounds of the uncomplaining sea. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
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