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After which he was left undisturbed, and unencouraged, until the local milkman, who'd heard him on his morning rounds, somehow talked the family into getting the kid lessons.

From Time Magazine Archive

This rush had already begun when, early in the seventies, in the interest of her prospective brother-in-law, she approached me on the singular ground of the unencouraged sentiment I had entertained for her sister.

From Embarrassments by James, Henry

It could not have been in the nature of this artless child, unencouraged and alone, to have been an impostor.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various

To such a nature the solitary years in Paris, the solitary return to California, the tentative and unencouraged approaches to her nieces, all made a dark memory.

From The Story of Julia Page by Norris, Kathleen Thompson

Hesitatingly and unencouraged, half to his daughter, and half to some invisible schoolmaster, whose lesson he might have learned by rote, Mr. Menemon fluttered the letter and sought some prefatory word.

From Eden An Episode by Saltus, Edgar