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  • Why do not the moribund and terminally self-satisfied not say: I lack impatience; I am unimpatient ...

    Patience Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • It certainly seems to be the case with me that I, at least, am not unimpatient.

    Patience Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • It certainly seems to be the case with me that I, at least, am not unimpatient.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • Why do not the moribund and terminally self-satisfied not say: I lack impatience; I am unimpatient ...

    Archive 2007-08-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • Now the knocking came again with a level, unimpatient repetition, and she called, "Come in!" at which Clara, in a pale morning gown, promptly entered -- an apparition as cool and smooth and burnished as if she had spent the night, like a French doll, in tissue paper.

    The Coast of Chance Esther Chamberlain

  • Presently, with a suave and unimpatient gesture, he took his ticket away from the peering woman and read her the number.

    The Judge Rebecca West 1937

  • Mrs. Hay was watching over her sleeping husband, whose slow recovery Flint was noting with unimpatient eye.

    A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier Charles King 1888

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