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  • Truly I think she'll be very glad indeed to release me from my contract when I offer her my coral beads instead, because they are dreadfully nice beads, my real, unpretended grandfather carved them for me himself ....

    Molly Make-Believe Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915

  • How pleasant the little unpretended gatherings of book-societies, and the like; or those purely accidental meetings of

    Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861

  • With unpretended humility and kindness he wept when the committee read to him the resolutions of Synod; overcome with varied emotions, his readiness at reply forsook him.

    Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers 1846

  • And that home was my safeguard and preservative in that crisis of my life; its atmosphere of unpretended honor and serene virtue strengthened all my resolutions; it braced me for my struggles against the strongest passion which youth admits, and counteracted the evil vapors of that air in which Vivian's envenomed spirit breathed and moved.

    The Caxtons — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • And that home was my safeguard and preservative in that crisis of my life; its atmosphere of unpretended honor and serene virtue strengthened all my resolutions; it braced me for my struggles against the strongest passion which youth admits, and counteracted the evil vapors of that air in which Vivian's envenomed spirit breathed and moved.

    The Caxtons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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