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
Still unassured, the Old Man turned his glasses on the rocky group.
From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by Bone, David W.
And when Dorothea was present she studied her too: she cast fleeting, searching, unassured glances at them—at Daniel and at Dorothea.
From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson
It recalled to her the ways of his pathetic youth, his youth that obscurity made wild and shy and unassured.
From The Divine Fire by Sinclair, May
Graceful she entered the forbidden court, Her bosom throbbing with her purpose high; Slow were her steps, and unassured her port, While hope just trembled in her azure eye.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 by Various
