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  • The indwelling Understanding apprehends all things through the Senses which are themselves inanimate and unapprehending.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • You almost make me say you are an unapprehending peasant woman, who have never been initiated into the proportions of social things.

    Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891

  • You almost make me say you are an unapprehending peasant woman, who have never been initiated into the proportions of social things.

    Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884

  • They indicate the high value which our navigator attached to this last discovery, now so irrevocably, but so painfully, associated with the honours of his name; whilst, in his unapprehending confidence, and the wonted calmness of his style, we see the agency of that beneficent law in our system, by which we are preserved ignorant of the evils that every hour and moment of our time may bring over us.

    A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 Robert Kerr 1784

  • And how much had he to struggle with in this respect, in the unapprehending obstinacy of some of his Macedonians? "

    Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are William Godwin 1796

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