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For it was there, in the midst of those unassisting and enervating surroundings, he dimly felt, that he himself was to choose one of two strangely divergent paths.

Phantom Wires A Novel Arthur Stringer 1912

A belated coquetry -- Pancha climbing up had wasted no time on such unassisting arts -- stirred in her.

Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California Geraldine Bonner 1900

The sacred name of friend was prostituted by each to designate the immoral tie that was between them; and while she implored him, with the simplicity of unassisting helplessness, to protect her from herself; and while he promised to be at once the guardian of her honour and his own, he drank deeply of the cup of lawless gratification, and began to familiarize himself with all its worst consequences.

Isabella. A Novel 1823

Un is prefixed to all participles made privative adjectives, as unfeeling, unassisting, unaided, undelighted, unendeared.

A Grammar of the English Tongue Samuel Johnson 1746

In the midst of a holocaust, it seems there are four main groups of people: the strong minority perpetrators, the weak majority victims, the mass of unassisting spectators, and the few and brave of the resistance.

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I would describe the unassisting spectators as those whose heads are buried in the sand and think nothing is wrong.

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