undesiring

His undesiring sighting of her body achieved the same effect for her as his desirous vision of Robinson: Caroline is disarticulated from the body/property scheme so necessary to the realism of sentimental narratives (to which the prince was himself addicted, believing Maria Fitzherbert to be his soulmate from whose bosom he had been torn by parental pressure to marry against his nature).

Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text 2006

I trod air; no doubt, no fear, no hope even, disturbed me; I clasped with my soul the fulness of contentment, satisfied, undesiring, beatified.

The Last Man 2003

"Really," he said, "you and I in our old age might be hero and heroine of a little romance -- the undesiring objects of a hopeless affection!"

The Yellow Crayon 1906

She would be a star fixed in his sky, object of his undesiring worship.

Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California Geraldine Bonner 1900

The convalescent is receptive and undesiring, or but very faintly desiring: the new blood coming into the frame like first dawn of light has not stirred the old passions; it is infant nature, with a tinge of superadded knowledge that is not cloud across it and lends it only a tender wistfulness.

The Tragic Comedians — Complete George Meredith 1868

The convalescent is receptive and undesiring, or but very faintly desiring: the new blood coming into the frame like first dawn of light has not stirred the old passions; it is infant nature, with a tinge of superadded knowledge that is not cloud across it and lends it only a tender wistfulness.

The Tragic Comedians — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

The convalescent is receptive and undesiring, or but very faintly desiring: the new blood coming into the frame like first dawn of light has not stirred the old passions; it is infant nature, with a tinge of superadded knowledge that is not cloud across it and lends it only a tender wistfulness.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

I trod air; no doubt, no fear, no hope even, disturbed me; I clasped with my soul the fulness of contentment, satisfied, undesiring, beatified.

I.5 1826

I trod air; no doubt, no fear, no hope even, disturbed me; I clasped with my soul the fulness of contentment, satisfied, undesiring, beatified.

The Last Man 1826

I trod air; no doubt, no fear, no hope even, disturbed me; I clasped with my soul the fulness of contentment, satisfied, undesiring, beatified.

The Last Man Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1824