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  • When he saw that we were surrounded he told the pirates in a most unimperial voice to take whatever they wished, only to spare our lives—certainly his, and perhaps ours as well, it was never quite clear.

    Valfierno Martín Caparrós 2008

  • When he saw that we were surrounded he told the pirates in a most unimperial voice to take whatever they wished, only to spare our lives—certainly his, and perhaps ours as well, it was never quite clear.

    Valfierno Martín Caparrós 2008

  • The new unimperial president toasted his own English muffins in the morning, said unimperial, straightforward things.

    CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2006 2006

  • He walked up Baxter to the China Palace, as unimperial a place as could be imagined despite its name, a red-daubed, dark, and dingy joint smelling of oriental greases, with a dying snake plant in the front window.

    Enemy Within Robert K. Tanenbaum 2002

  • He walked up Baxter to the China Palace, as unimperial a place as could be imagined despite its name, a red-daubed, dark, and dingy joint smelling of oriental greases, with a dying snake plant in the front window.

    Enemy Within Robert K. Tanenbaum 2002

  • He walked up Baxter to the China Palace, as unimperial a place as could be imagined despite its name, a red-daubed, dark, and dingy joint smelling of oriental greases, with a dying snake plant in the front window.

    Enemy Within Robert K. Tanenbaum 2002

  • With some distinctly unimperial cusswords I whirled about to see the assistant master of ceremonies go into action.

    Blue System Scheer, Karl 1976

  • Far, far away from her were the unimperial quarters in which, once, she would have lived.

    The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller

  • The emperor first saw his new wife some days later on the road between Soissons and Compiegne, where he had gone to meet her in most unimperial haste, and in contradiction to the pompous and complicated ceremony which had been arranged for their first interview.

    The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte Tarbell, Ida 1899

  • Theo rose from her footstool at once, and stood up tall and straight -- a young sultana, the youngest and most innocent-looking of sultanas, in unimperial gray satin.

    Theo A Sprightly Love Story Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

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