unconstraint

Example Sentences

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I wished to appear at ease, but the more I tried to assume an air of unconstraint, the more awkward I felt.

From Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian by Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich

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

"Margery!" he said; and she laughed with the joyous unconstraint of a happy child and came around to sit by him.

From The Price by Lynde, Francis

Loulou was the first to have pity on Wilhelm's discomfort, and to find means to give their intercourse in Berlin at least a little of the beautiful unconstraint of the old times.

From The Malady of the Century by Nordau, Max Simon

The nursery had to be installed in this insalubrious spot on account of the sylvan and capricious nurses, accustomed to the unconstraint of the stable.

From The Nabob by Blaydes, W.