unconstraint

Example Sentences

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She reassured and welcomed me with a natural smile, and pursued her occupation with quiet cheerfulness and unconstraint.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various

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

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

Nothing gives such an air of grace and elegance and unconstraint to a German or an English conversation as to scatter it full of "Also's" or "You knows."

From A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 by Twain, Mark

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