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Unkingly, indeed unheroic, little of kin with them they might well have thought that panting George; and yet they might have looked on him with interest as the last of their proud race.

From A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by McCarthy, Justin

Or is it the rage of stark Edward; the base Unkingly revenge on a kinglier race; The wrong idly wrought on the patriot dead; The dark castle of doom; the scorn-diadem’d head?

From The Visions of England Lyrics on leading men and events in English History by Morley, Henry

Goneril: Continue in your joy of punishing evil, Your passion of just revenge upon wrong-doers, Unkingly and untrue?

From Georgian Poetry 1913-15 by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir

Unkingly should I be, and most unknightly, Not striving still, however much in vain, To rival him in Christian charity.

From Becket and other plays by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

To the tune of the clinking of his fight-honoured armour Unkingly, unhappy, he went his ways homeward.

From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by Morris, William