And, straightway took her, unresisting, in his arms. From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
He drew her, unresisting, to him, and kissed her forehead. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Ye see their unresisting tribes, with toilsome steps and slow. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference
He was swept on, unresisting, by the high flood of the new day. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
She led him to a seat on the porch; he sank into it unresisting. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
Yet to these laws Christians and Protestants yielded unresisting submission. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
She stood perfectly still, unresisting to the grip of his hand on her wrist. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
Impulsively encircling the unresisting form, he answers upon those upturned lips. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
It is very true of them, as we see them here, -- so unresisting, and yet so resistless. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
The guards started out of the doors and Kenkenes went with them, unresisting, but not passively. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
The man made a motion to run, but Philip clutched his arm, and he stood cowering and unresisting. From Wordnik.com. [Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
But this was long-term, dragging toil -- a steady pushing at a soggy, unresisting, yet heavy mass. From Wordnik.com. [The Weakling] Reference
It may have been hypnotism, or some kindred mystery, but we were unresisting children in his hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
She was hurried away, an unresisting captive, but was ultimately restored to her father by the exertions of. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
He bent and took an unresisting hand and said: "If you are in trouble, may I not try to be your comforter?". From Wordnik.com. [The Wedge of Gold] Reference
Will it slowly gather itself up for victorious onset? or will it sink unresisting into darkness and the grave?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
He made silent motions to Tennelly, and the two picked up the unresisting Courtland and laid him on the couch. From Wordnik.com. [The Witness] Reference
He supported the unresisting weight on his shoulder, and as he kept afloat, he despairingly scanned the horizon. From Wordnik.com. [Shelled by an Unseen Foe] Reference
This outrage provoked but did not justify the massacre by the British of the helpless sick and unresisting at Fort. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
Judah no longer, and her despised children are now but the unresisting victims of hostile and military oppression. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference
She never knew how it was she did not shriek aloud, but instead managed to remain perfectly quiescent, unresisting. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
For a moment she lay unresisting in his arms, helpless in the grip of the passion of love which had engulfed them both. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
Ophelia's weak and unresisting brain must share with the stresses which surrounded her the responsibility for her madness. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
Tittering and leering, he seized the girl by the arm, and led her, unresisting, to the cranny that was the door of the cave. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
The woman, at the first of his growl, smiled feebly, going back with unresisting meekness to her knees, to her pots, and her kettles. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
Men are not patient under sickness, at least not that unquestioning, unresisting patience which most women and the lower animals show. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Jim Barrows and his set found more delight in tormenting several unresisting victims than they could possibly have enjoyed with only one. From Wordnik.com. [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference
I soon found that Abdulmomen, like many more clergymen, was willing enough to do all the preaching, whenever he found an unresisting listener. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Mollie took the paper from Betty's unresisting hand, smoothed it out, traced her finger down the column and finally came to the name she sought. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue] Reference
The terrible force of the angel, with its hawk-like swoop, the unresisting heavy fall of the body through the air, are rendered with extraordinary power. From Wordnik.com. [Luca Signorelli] Reference
Deep and dark are the leaves, strong and unresisting; but even they have their tender points, and the young shoots are deliciously green and sweet scented. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
A passion of affection was on him; he would take her unresisting hand and lead her as though she were his, really, and before them was their moated castle. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
At first they encountered nothing but the unresisting water; and then one hindfoot grazed the crocodile's back, but the tough hide turned the sharp claws aside. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
A moment before his right hand had closed, gently, over her own unresisting one; and the words he was speaking would have been inaudible to any one two yards away. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
"And I shall have the satisfaction of marrying a second time the loveliest girl in the world," laughed Don Carlos happily, as he drew her unresisting into his arms again. From Wordnik.com. [Bandit Love] Reference
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