It is often exceedingly quiet and undemonstrative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Conduct] Reference

Though undemonstrative, he was thoroughly in earnest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference

Yet Dr. Le Grand was both unassuming and undemonstrative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre.] Reference

In fact, Bubbles was a very quiet, polite dog, undemonstrative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Demons Don't Dream]

He was an austere man, very fine-looking, but silent and undemonstrative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference

John Thomas was an unsmiling humorist and the idol of the undemonstrative crew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janet of the Dunes] Reference

He was a quiet, undemonstrative chap but Peggy liked him from the moment she met him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home] Reference

He greeted me in his usual cordial but undemonstrative way, congratulated me, and said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty-Six Years in the Army] Reference

It is simple, undemonstrative heroism, the ardent desire of a race to last in spite of all.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Those Who Wait] Reference

Again the void on the phone, from either the bottom of a waste bin or an undemonstrative boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wolves Eat Dogs]

Even with Abel, as crusty and undemonstrative as he had been, she had known that he had cared.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Grave Denied]

Kit's greeting to her quiet, undemonstrative father was as effusive as he would allow it to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure] Reference

It would be unjust to try them by the rules of our fastidious taste and undemonstrative manners.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference

They had grown so close together during the past years in their silent, undemonstrative fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the Hills] Reference

Their affection is deeper but less emotional, like old friendships, undemonstrative but everlasting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Education of Catholic Girls] Reference

The mother had much undemonstrative affection for her daughter, but no understanding and less sympathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Ashes] Reference

So Alice lived, quiet, affectionate, but undemonstrative, as was natural after the trials she had passed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859] Reference

Etta was touched, and began to think there might be some interest in even the plain, undemonstrative Gretchen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life] Reference

Americans who now visit London are apt to be so plain and undemonstrative in dress that they are called shabby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manners and Social Usages] Reference

She had almost wept on his neck, which was embarrassing for an undemonstrative dog, and said he deserved a Carnegie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baldy of Nome] Reference

He was an undemonstrative Englishman, but there was that in her eyes which carried him away from self-consciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tin Soldier] Reference

"That concerns me," exclaimed the detective with another rapid glance at the undemonstrative figure in the next room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference

They are inclined to be cynical, reserved, undemonstrative but very insistent in trying to gain the person they want.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palmistry for All] Reference

He seemed unable to realize that this popping of rifles, this calm, undemonstrative series of statements by an unexcited.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts In Russia] Reference

But he is an undemonstrative being, this man of the West, and you take a long time to find out whether he likes you or not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference

From very childhood, though so silent and undemonstrative, he had fed himself with extravagant visions and wild speculations.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Child of the Glens or, Elsie's Fortune] Reference

Anyone who had the privilege of meeting Markus met a man who was quiet, unassuming, undemonstrative and fantastic fun to be with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southampton owner Markus Liebherr dies] Reference

"Don't you know that he is a very undemonstrative man, and that if he really cared for any one he is not the sort to exhibit it?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur] Reference

This was strange conduct for his usually undemonstrative mother; but it was nice to be hugged like that, even though she did cry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference

Shy men and shy races are ungraceful and undemonstrative, because, as regards society at large, they are comparatively unsociable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

She gave her such a caress as her undemonstrative nature rarely gave way to, and it somehow opened Etta's heart and mouth as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life] Reference

He only felt vaguely that the silent, undemonstrative love which the old place had so long held for him had suddenly found expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Time Appointed] Reference

In his silent, undemonstrative way he had idolized his wife, and it was seldom that he would allow any allusion to her in his presence.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Time Appointed] Reference

The rooms, three in number, were furnished with a simple elegance that appealed strongly to them all, and the undemonstrative manner with which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge] Reference

Naturally the conversation turned upon the representation of Adrienne, and on the applause of the fashionable audience, usually rather undemonstrative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Open and unreserved as she was by nature, in this particular she had schooled herself to be as reticent and undemonstrative as she accused me of being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference

In this one simple sentence the old fellow, hard, undemonstrative, more than a bit "Lancashire," expressed the utmost approval of which he was capable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juggernaut] Reference

It had unfortunately selected one who was cautious and undemonstrative, and who had become convinced that he really was the greatest prodigy that the world had ever produced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference