There were some Sabbath loiterers in the street, and it was necessary that the two should part undemonstratively. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
His way with ladies is sisterly -- undemonstratively affectionate. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series] Reference
The count waited undemonstratively until Ammiani had come to an end. From Wordnik.com. [Vittoria — Complete] Reference
Cook then undemonstratively pushes through a gap in the covers for two. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Here was a good and gentle spirit which strove undemonstratively for the salvation of a being the circumstances of whose birth bordered on the infernal. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
At Washington he came into contact with the statesmanship and the demagogy of the republic, and, while the former gave him a magnificent reception, the latter quietly and undemonstratively quenched his hopes. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I] Reference
He welcomed me undemonstratively, but with evident sincerity; and there was an entire absence of the constraint which often accompanies the meeting again of friends whose cordial relations have suffered interruption. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Stradivarius] Reference
They strolled undemonstratively up the nave towards the altar railing, which they stood against in silence, turning then and walking down the nave again, her hand still on his arm, precisely like a couple just married. From Wordnik.com. [Jude the Obscure] Reference
The young wife, who I must say is the daughter of a penniless country clergyman with a large family, was radiant; the Major was quietly and undemonstratively pleased to see me; the veil of the years fell off, and I found myself back on the old easy terms with him, as when we were schoolboys together thirty years ago. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Isle] Reference
After all, what is chiefly needed to preserve theatrical illusion is a certain harmony of arrangement, which shall be so undemonstratively complete as to escape consideration; no false notes must be struck to divert attention from the designs of the dramatist and from his interpreters, the players; and to these the help derived from scenery and dresses should always be subordinated. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character] Reference
He had to realise that at an age when he might naturally have looked for a tranquil home life -- a life tended and soothed into its natural decline by the care and devotion of the wife he had undemonstratively but most tenderly loved, he was suddenly cast adrift like the hulk of an old battleship broken from its moorings, with nothing but solitude and darkness closing in upon his latter days. From Wordnik.com. [Innocent : her fancy and his fact] Reference
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