unresisting

Example Sentences

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Unresisting, he lies back down, but just stares at the needle on one of the dials as it twitches from side to side.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

All the landscape seems to swoon In the happy afternoon; Slowly o'er his senses creep The encroaching waves of sleep, And he sinks as sank the town, Unresisting, fathoms down, Into caverns cool and deep!

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Unresisting, they tottered and fell one against another, like ninepins: and Roy, hating the man, turned sharply away.

From Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Diver, Maud

Unresisting as sheep they let themselves be shipped on four small armed steamers sent by their enemies to carry them into exile.

From The King Of Beaver, and Beaver Lights From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell

Unresisting, Jimmie let himself, by weight of numbers, be carried forward.

From Somewhere in France by Davis, Richard Harding