unbend

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Unbend your brow; relax the stern melancholy of your regard; permit a friend, a sincere, affectionate friend, I will be one, to convey some relief, some momentary pause to your sufferings.

From Mathilda by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Unbend that brow, and think alone of me, And in these smiles forget— War.

From Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts by Sargant, Jane Alice

Unbend yourself and do what every mother's heart should prompt her to do.

From Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale by Glenwood, Ida

Unbend sufficiently to dress as goblins and nymphs?

From Historic Boyhoods by Holland, Rupert Sargent

Unbend the rope from his neck, my padre, and hitch it on to that Manilla chair.

From Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)