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It was a large needler, similar to the one in his own waistband; and it had bobbed up like a cork, unimpelled, from Oosik's holster.
Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994
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It was a large needler, similar to the one in his own waistband; and it had bobbed up like a cork, unimpelled, from Oosik's holster.
Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994
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I lost myself out of time and space, and seemed to be floating unimpelled and purposeless, nowhere in Forever.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various
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Seeing the level attained by such members as have an impulse to speak, I shudder to conceive an oration by one of those unimpelled members ...
Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914
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The banka, unimpelled by the paddle, seemed to stand still on the water.
The Social Cancer Jos�� Rizal 1878
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A light vapour, the lightest, airiest of the airiest, swept gently along the surface of the ground, but as if unimpelled by any secret influence.
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828
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Necessity is a harsh teacher, but commonly makes wise scholars: like experience, though unpleasant at the time of trial, it repays us by a subsequent benefit, and is often the cause of producing superior traits in characters that, unimpelled by its imperious dictates, had possibly never been called into action, nor obtained the well-deserved meed of applause for their noble sufferance under its stern decrees.
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