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  • She wanted to go back; but uncalculatingly went forward again, and came to a narrow, empty by-street into which she turned.

    Mother 2003

  • It was splendid to think of the lads of Canada answering so speedily and fearlessly and uncalculatingly to the call of their country.

    Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud 1921

  • This was the motive which impelled Wilberforce to devote himself, uncalculatingly and unhesitatingly, to the reclamation of lives that had been devastated by drunkenness, and which stimulated his zeal for all social and moral reforms.

    Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences George William Erskine Russell 1886

  • And she seemed ready to fling it away as uncalculatingly as Priscilla herself.

    The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • Sirs, they have stood by your Constitution; they have stood by all its requirements, they have performed all its duties unselfishly, uncalculatingly, disinterestedly, until a party sprang up in this country which endangered their social system—a party which they arraign, and which they charge before the American people and all mankind with having made proclamation of outlawry against four thousand millions of their property in the Territories of the United States; with having put them under the ban of the empire in all the States in which their institutions exist outside the protection of federal laws; with having aided and abetted insurrection from within and invasion from without with the view of subverting those institutions, and desolating their homes and their firesides.

    On Resigning from the Senate 1906

  • Sirs, they have stood by your Constitution; they have stood by all its requirements, they have performed all its duties unselfishly, uncalculatingly, disinterestedly, until a party sprang up in this country which endangered their social system -- a party which they arraign, and which they charge before the American people and all mankind with having made proclamation of outlawry against four thousand millions of their property in the Territories of the United States; with having put them under the ban of the empire in all the States in which their institutions exist outside the protection of federal laws; with having aided and abetted insurrection from within and invasion from without with the view of subverting those institutions, and desolating their homes and their firesides.

    The Art of Public Speaking Dale Carnagey 1906

  • Sirs, they have stood by your Constitution; they have stood by all its requirements; they have performed all its duties unselfishly, uncalculatingly, disinterestedly, until a party sprang up in this country which endangered their social system -- a party which they arraign, and which they charge before the American people and all mankind, with having made proclamation of outlawry against four thousand millions of their property in the Territories of the United States; with having put them under the ban of the empire in all the States in which their institutions exist, outside the protection of Federal laws; with having aided and abetted insurrection from within and invasion from without, with the view of subverting those institutions, and desolating their homes and their firesides.

    American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897) Various 1899

  • “Never mind; I’m not used to luxury,” the mother answered uncalculatingly.

    Mother 2003

  • I'm going to have a romance that means falling wildly, unreasonably, uncalculatingly in love. "

    The Sisters-In-Law Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

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