unblenching

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Yet, with unblenching brow, he waits the falling of the thunderbolt, a calm, grand figure, fit to live in history's pages when every memory of meaner men has passed into oblivion, M.T.

From Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front by Hales, A. G. (Alfred Greenwood)

Mistress Clorinda laughed, sitting straight in her saddle, her fine eyes unblenching, though the sun struck them.

From A Lady of Quality by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

You know the truth of what I say; we have looked unblenching into this ever-possible catastrophe. 

From Prince Otto, a Romance by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Many a martyr has gone unblenching to the stake for Christ, who had found it far harder to serve Him in common duties.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Maclaren, Alexander

In her form and features still The unblenching Puritan will, Cavalier honor, Huguenot grace, The Quaker truth and sweetness, And the strength of the danger-girdled race Of Holland, blend in a proud completeness.

From America First Patriotic Readings by McBrien, Jasper Leonidas