unhurrying

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There were many people abroad, going to and fro, unhurrying, but not aimless, and I watched them so attentively that were you to ask me for the most elementary details of the buildings and terraces that lay back on either bank, or of the pinnacles and towers and parapets that laced the sky, I could not tell you them.

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  • We shared what was there, unhurrying, savoring the simple pleasure of absolutely ripe fruit. —  forestmage
  • There were many people abroad, going to and fro, unhurrying, but not aimless, and I watched them so attentively that were you to ask me for the most elementary details of the buildings and terraces that lay back on either bank, or of the pinnacles and towers and parapets that laced the sky, I could not tell you them. —  A Modern Utopia
  • In its short life of months it lives through an eternity of unhurrying perceptions and of big sensations. —  The Extra Day
  • "Tono" -- what's that? and deep, rich, unhurrying; -- "BUN -- gay!" —  Tono Bungay
  • Instead, with unhurrying stride —  A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917
 

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