uncontending

Then again, when he sleeps he looks more peaceful than any human I have seen; and sometimes his open eyes seem to articulate a kind of rolling bliss, an uncontending contententness, happy simply to look.

The baby Adam Roberts Project 2007

Then again, when he sleeps he looks more peaceful than any human I have seen; and sometimes his open eyes seem to articulate a kind of rolling bliss, an uncontending contententness, happy simply to look.

Archive 2007-12-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

Would she lay aside, like the friends of my uncontending Rosebud, all thoughts of defiance — Would she throw herself upon my mercy, and try me but one fortnight in the life of honour — What then? —

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

In him I see a strong human creature, contending with all hardship: in you also a human creature, uncontending, and possibly not strong.

On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859

His judgment was penetrating and manly, totally unmixed with imbecility and confusion, while at the same time there was such an uncontending frankness in his countenance, that a superficial observer would have supposed he must have been the prey of the first plausible knavery that was practised against him.

Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are William Godwin 1796

Thou knowest my generosity to my uncontending Rosebud -- and sometimes do I qualify my ardent aspirations after even this very fine creature, by this reflection: -- That the most charming woman on earth, were she an empress, can excel the meanest in the customary visibles only.

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 Samuel Richardson 1725