Adjective : an assured income. ,His art was both assured and facile.    From Dictionary.com. 

The first act, however, afforded her so little scope for acting, that she left the stage unassured of her own success.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859] Reference

And as long as Obama's margin over McCain is smaller than the number of unassured voters, he cannot really feel comfortable.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2008] Reference

But we did not then venture to quote any long passages from the original, unassured how they might look on our page to the eyes of Young Britain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference

Still He persisted in his design; and with a voice unassured and frequent interruptions, He contrived to finish the four first lines of the page.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monk] Reference

But there are times when, for all his determined good spirits, Mundy is infected by the unreality of the divided city, its gallows humor and doomed atmosphere of unassured survival.    From Wordnik.com.  [Absolute Friends]

With tremendous increase in our control of nature in our ability to utilize nature for human use and satisfaction, we find the actual realization of ends, the enjoyment of values, growing unassured and precarious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living and Learning in School] Reference

And it added to the misery of that dark hour that Mat could say nothing, and that he had to let that true and deeply-loved soul pass out of life with its greatest fear unsatisfied, and its brightest hope unassured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886] Reference

Her face, which in the first place he had so well looked over, he now looked into with something more personal in his quest, as if under the low brows and crowding lashes there was a puzzle to solve in the timid, unassured glances of such splendid eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coast of Chance] Reference

When I said I would try she looked distressfully unassured and I added.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cavalier] Reference

Bur rest unassured that there will be some unreasonable anticipations.    From Wordnik.com.  [CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries] Reference

The sun still shone in heaven, and still Edward's conquest was unassured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference

When the answer came, it was strangely deprecatory, uncertain, unassured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vera, the Medium] Reference

"He could steal our type and other things, and sell them," grumbled Ned, still unassured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blue Birds' Winter Nest] Reference

It recalled to her the ways of his pathetic youth, his youth that obscurity made wild and shy and unassured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Divine Fire] Reference

But the four infants who were left would be burden enough for the mother in her unassured and unprotected state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets] Reference

And when Dorothea was present she studied her too: she cast fleeting, searching, unassured glances at them — at Daniel and at Dorothea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gänsemännchen. English] Reference

But Bismarck was not satisfied, and in his eyes Germany’s safety was still unassured; so he appealed to the Reichstag to augment largely their armaments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine] Reference

Lady Eveline approached his bedside with unassured steps, fearing she knew not what, yet earnest to testify the interest she felt in the distresses of the sufferer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Betrothed] Reference

But the weight within was too great; he shuffled with his feet, rolled his eyes, and twisted his hands, like an unassured witness before an acute and not to be deceived judge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodstock; or, the Cavalier] Reference

And then again the old man fell a wondering at something in them that did not suggest the unassured beginnings of courtship, a settled security of relation as of complete unity in a mutual enterprise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Emigrant Trail] Reference

She was too much agitated, too unassured, too conscious of the break with all her former life and habits which she was making, to enjoy the journey or the sight of so many new places or the novelty in everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago] Reference

Having so long and so assiduously kept corrupting their servants, is the government still unassured of their readiness to be scoundrels?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother] Reference

"conscience of sins" (ver. 2) haunted them still, that is to say, the weary sense of an unsettled score of offences, a position precarious and unassured before the Judge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews] Reference

My mother she, not unassured before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ion] Reference

"If you are wholly unassured of your being a believer, is it not a contradiction in terms to say, that you are sure the believers 'promises belong to you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne] Reference

It was totally unassured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Carrie: a Novel] Reference

The fayned friends, the unassured foes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fowre Hymnes] Reference

The feigned friends, the unassured foes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding] Reference

(Yet unassured and wavering in their view).    From Wordnik.com.  [Purgatory. Canto XXXI] Reference

'Is it?' she replied, laughing, but unassured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in Love] Reference

Jeanie looked round again as if still unassured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago] Reference