unconstraint

Example Sentences

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With her kindly unconstraint she reached for one of his hands to test its temperature.

From Aurora the Magnificent by Brownell, Gertrude Hall

His quick assumption that Agnes was at his disposal if he chose to woo her had been mere fatuity; he misread her perfect simplicity of demeanour, the unconstraint of her intellectual sympathies.

From The Odd Women by Gissing, George

Princely unconstraint has the privilege of experiment, and what is frailty in a plebeian is only frolic in a duchess.

From The Man Who Laughs by Hugo, Victor

There is tendency on the part of both the upholders and the opponents of freedom in school to identify it with absence of social direction, or, sometimes, with merely physical unconstraint of movement.

From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by Dewey, John

Among them were a number of tall men, lean and sinewy, with a sweep of line and unconstraint of gesture that smacked of hunters' ways and mountain exercise.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary