A hot blush at his own unmeant impertinence thrills him from head to foot. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
Gus had not too much sensitiveness in his character, but this unmeant insult stung him. From Wordnik.com. [Acton's Feud A Public School Story] Reference
My poor daughters ended up the unmeant psychic target, and I'm certain I scared the heck out of them. From Wordnik.com. [Randy Susan Meyers: Kind Or Cruel: What Kind Of Parent Are You?] Reference
"As long as he doesn't step on my feet," Ria said, composing her face into another pleasant but totally unmeant smile. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond World's End]
Mindful of that night when the professor in despair at her untimely descent upon him, had said many things unmeant, he answers her. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Rebel A Novel] Reference
He dropped into a chair as Jason muttered an unmeant apology to Jeffries, and the "Master" glared and uttered insincere words of acceptance. From Wordnik.com. [Children Of The Night]
If Garric told the other villagers what he was thinking now, Sil could have joined in the laughter and repaid the boy's unmeant cruelty of past years. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
These poems are as heartless as birdsong, as unmeant as elm leaves, which, if they love, love only the wide blue sky and the air and the idea of elm leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Poems by Robert Bringhurst] Reference
May I hope that in future they will recognize the distinction between severe language used in sober earnest, and the “words of unmeant bitterness”, which. From Wordnik.com. [A Tangled Tale] Reference
The noise shocked Sharina into an unmeant scream, but the touch of Nonnus 'hand prevented her from lurching out of the circle and perhaps off the platform itself. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
Imagine then a Congress composed of angry frightened men and women, aching for revenge against the cruel punishment inflicted upon their nation for an unmeant arrogance, for imperialist tinkering with peoples and cultures halfway around the world from their own sometimes sordid mess. From Wordnik.com. [Phoney War] Reference
Excerpt ape of Life's unfathomed moan, Whelming humanity with fears unmeant. From Wordnik.com. [manybooks.net] Reference
Old Sapt broke it by saying sadly, yet with an unmeant drollery that set Fritz and me laughing. From Wordnik.com. [The Prisoner of Zenda: being the history of three months in the life of an English gentleman] Reference
He himself little knew the unmeant significance there was in the old Continental uniform he had worn to the dance. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come] Reference
Can man out-wit omnipotence 1 strike out A self-wrought happiness unmeant by him Who made us, and the world we would enjoy 1. From Wordnik.com. [The complaint; or Night thoughts on life, death, and immortality. With the life of the author] Reference
Yes, Isabel; but you will find that the great difference is between kind and unkind wrongs, not between meant and unmeant wrong. From Wordnik.com. [The Ethics of the Dust] Reference
Beyond that, it had not prejudiced her against him, for there was a certain noble loftiness in her character which could largely forgive an unmeant wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Taquisara] Reference
Jordan began his career as a graphic artist and environmental activist when he noticed the casual and unmeant beauty of a salvage yard and photographed it. From Wordnik.com. [http://www.religionandspirituality.com] Reference
The force and suddenness of his emotion and her own had overborne her into this strange unmeant confession; but her mood was unlike his, -- it was merely receptive. From Wordnik.com. ["Le Monsieur de la Petite Dame"] Reference
I have seen so many men promptly revive beneath the showers of another woman's glance and of another woman's tender -- perhaps like mine -- unmeant words, mere platitudes, platitudes effectual, intangible. From Wordnik.com. [The Inner Sisterhood A Social Study in High Colors] Reference
Occasionally, as a door opened to admit some late father or brother or other stay of a family, the laugh of children -- for children did laugh, just as flowers bloomed, amid this desolation -- escaped and saluted him like an unmeant caress. From Wordnik.com. [Tiger-Lilies. A Novel.] Reference
It was the moment when the society calling itself by Giordano Bruno's name was making an effort for the suppression of ecclesiastical instruction in the public schools; and on the anniversary of his martyrdom his effigy had suffered this unmeant hurt. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Holidays, and Others] Reference
"What words are these," she said, "that they pass thy lips so easily and so unmeant, perchance from long practice?. From Wordnik.com. [She and Allan] Reference
If a wife doesn’t respect her husband enough to tell him herself that she’s having an abortion, their marriage is already in such bad shape that there’s no point forcing her to make an artificial gesture of unmeant respect. From Wordnik.com. [Alito, Husband-Notification, and Choice For Men] Reference
My Lady Maud unmeant offence. From Wordnik.com. [The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems] Reference
With words of unmeant bitterness. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference
Yet question that unmeant hypocrisy. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1] Reference
But Rhoeteus happen'd on a death unmeant. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid English] Reference
Behind the unmeant word the sharp surprise. From Wordnik.com. [Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul] Reference
But Rhoeteus happend on a death unmeant. From Wordnik.com. [The Tenth Book of the Aeneis] Reference
"They were unmeant!" persists he, fiercely. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
But Rhacteus happen'd on a death unmeant. From Wordnik.com. [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference
A wound unmeant. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor] Reference
"with words of unmeant bitterness". From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry] Reference
But Rhoeteus happen’d on a death unmeant. From Wordnik.com. [The AEneid] Reference
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