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  • That falteringly taken, he would glance at his brother not unadmiringly, put his hands behind him, and shuffle on so at his side until he took another pinch, or stood still to look about him — perchance suddenly missing his clarionet.

    Little Dorrit 2007

  • The right wing of the chorus of the perpetually indignant have repeatedly gone on the warpath against Hollywood for political crimes real and imagined, excoriating actress Maggie Gyllenhaal "Secretary" for her brief criticism of American foreign policy, and denouncing George Lucas for perhaps alluding unadmiringly to George W. Bush in "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith."

    "Hollywood's Skin Deep Leftism" Steve Sailer 2005

  • The right wing of the chorus of the perpetually indignant have repeatedly gone on the warpath against Hollywood for political crimes real and imagined, excoriating actress Maggie Gyllenhaal "Secretary" for her brief criticism of American foreign policy, and denouncing George Lucas for perhaps alluding unadmiringly to George W. Bush in "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith."

    Archive 2005-08-21 Steve Sailer 2005

  • It would grieve me to know that any one could think so injuriously of me, so uncomplimentarily, so unadmiringly of me.

    Is Shakespeare Dead? 1909

  • Perceiving that the town not unadmiringly deemed him odd, he cultivated oddity.

    Leonora Arnold Bennett 1899

  • I fancy that his glance must have fallen more than once, and that unadmiringly, upon that part of the table where Messer Simone sat and babbled and brawled and drank, as if drinking were a new fashion which he was resolved to test to the uttermost.

    The God of Love 1898

  • It would grieve me to know that any one could think so injuriously of me, so uncomplimentarily, so unadmiringly of me.

    What Is Man? and Other Essays Mark Twain 1872

  • It would grieve me to know that any one could think so injuriously of me, so uncomplimentarily, so unadmiringly of me.

    Is Shakespeare Dead? from my autobiography Mark Twain 1872

  • Now I cannot laugh at the invertebrate haunter of flashy bars and theatre-stalls, because he has not the lovable element in him which invites kindly laughter; but I do smile -- not unadmiringly -- at our dandy, and forgive him his little eccentricities because I know that what the Americans term the "hard pan" of his nature is sound.

    The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour James Runciman 1871

  • That falteringly taken, he would glance at his brother not unadmiringly, put his hands behind him, and shuffle on so at his side until he took another pinch, or stood still to look about him -- perchance suddenly missing his clarionet.

    Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841

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