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French and Russian, making at the same time the protective signs of his religion, he muttered a sentence of which the other caught little more than the unassuring word that something was about them close -- something
The Centaur Algernon Blackwood 1910
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The professor had spared enough time from his bugs and beetles to notice how blue Kate's eyes were, and how luxurious her hair; then he had also, with some misgivings, regarded his own in the mirror, with the unassuring result that his hair was thinning on top and his eyes looked old through his gold-bowed spectacles.
'Way Down East A Romance of New England Life Joseph Rhode Grismer 1885
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"Oh, prodigiously," she answered with unassuring candor.
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall Charles Major 1884
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