unrecognizing

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"With slight unrecognizing salutation they passed me; plunged down amid the neighboring thickets, onward, to Heaven, and to England; and I, in my friend Richter's words, I remained alone, behind them, with the Night!"

From The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 by Various

Aunt Melissa saw him coming, and peered at him over her glasses with an unrecognizing stare.

From Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life by Brown, Alice

Barney looked back at it with unrecognizing eyes,—this gentle, misty, blue vagueness was not the solemn, sombre mountain that he knew.

From The Young Mountaineers Short Stories by Fraser, Malcolm

His eyes stared with a dull, puzzled, unrecognizing vacancy first at Carolyn June and then the Gold Dust maverick.

From The Ramblin' Kid by Bowman, Earl Wayland

Robbie surveyed them gravely, unrecognizing any of the older guests until presently one face stood out vaguely familiar in the clear twilight.

From Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls by Schwartz, Julia Augusta