unassured
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The passing mention of “civil war” is I believe an unnamed reference to the 1786 Shays’ rebellion which reminds us even from Justice Story’s 1837 vantage that our nation’s continued existence has often been unassured.
From Forbes ● May 12, 2015
But we did not then venture to quote any long passages from the original, unassured how they might look on our page to the eyes of Young Britain.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various
I felt unassured in regard to my condition, and was half disposed to believe that I was still asleep and imagining horrors!
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Alexander Leighton
And then again the old man fell a wondering at something in them that did not suggest the unassured beginnings of courtship, a settled security of relation as of complete unity in a mutual enterprise.
From The Emigrant Trail by Geraldine Bonner
When I said I would try she looked distressfully unassured and I added "I'll do whatever risks no life but mine."
From The Cavalier by George Washington Cable
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