unassured

Example Sentences

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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

Soon after the ladies left her, she received a message from Henry, requesting, as she saw company, to be permitted to visit her: she consented, and he entered immediately, with an unassured pace.

From Mary A Fiction by Wollstonecraft, Mary

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 Bonner, Geraldine

This being graciously accorded, the mate, with a most doleful countenance, and a very unassured voice, made answer to the plain interrogative of the Clerk of Arraigns-- "Not guilty, my Lord."

From The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Landor, Edward Wilson

But the four infants who were left would be burden enough for the mother in her unassured and unprotected state.

From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by Reid, George