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Wordlessly the three of them crossed the plowed land to the trees where the old slave cemetery had lain unmarked and ungrieved for so long.
Hunting Season Barr, Nevada 2002
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A few pedestrians were walking resolutely toward the transpontine borough; the cop on duty stood outside his little cabin with the air of one ungrieved by care.
Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923
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The thin, lifeless, sandy-coloured body, stretched on those red mats; and this black creature -- now lying at our feet -- propped on its haunches like the dog in "The Death of Procris," patient, curious, ungrieved, staring down at it with his bright, interested eyes.
The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy John Galsworthy 1900
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The thin, lifeless, sandy-coloured body, stretched on those red mats; and this black creature -- now lying at our feet -- propped on its haunches like the dog in "The Death of Procris," patient, curious, ungrieved, staring down at it with his bright, interested eyes.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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The thin, lifeless, sandy-coloured body, stretched on those red mats; and this black creature -- now lying at our feet -- propped on its haunches like the dog in "The Death of Procris," patient, curious, ungrieved, staring down at it with his bright, interested eyes.
Inn of Tranquillity John Galsworthy 1900
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My departure from Nithsdale was like the partings of dear old long ago, before one had experienced what 'time will teach the softest heart, unmoved to meet, ungrieved to part,' as the immortal Mr. Terrot once wrote.
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Unmoved must they remain by even the direst adversities, ungrieved by the worst of disasters.
Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882
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The humanity on which the Divine Spirit uninterruptedly abides, ungrieved and unrestrained, must be free from the stains which so often drive that heavenly visitant from our breasts.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868
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I have wrought out my will and abide it, and I sit ungrieved and alone,
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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This representative flower will always be a wild one, and of the simplest form which completely expresses the character of the plant; existing divinely and unchangeably from age to age, ungrieved by man's neglect, and inflexible by his power.
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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