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  • It speaks well for our sense of honour, and respect for the implied conditions of the treaty, when it is remembered that this abhorred Tom, the living instrument of our tortures, and on whose back we had most of us so often writhed, was permitted to go into the darkest corners of the room unmolested, and even uninsulted.

    Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820

  • As much as I dislike President Ahmadinejad, I believed it was important for him to speak uninterrupted and uninsulted at Columbia University when he visited New York.

    Inside Higher Ed 2010

  • "It was built for a larger population than ours," Aval's response was cheerfully uninsulted.

    Wraithbait 2009

  • Life in New England may have been dull and monotonous, but women could go through the streets in safety, and Judge Sewall could stumble home alone in the dark from his love-making without fear of molestation; and when he found a party of young men singing and making too much noise in a tavern, he could go among them uninsulted, and could get them to meekly write down their own names with his "Pensil" for him to bring them up and fine them the next day.

    Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • a European woman can go unveiled yet uninsulted through Marrakesh, the credit is due to the ladies of the Mission.

    Morocco S.L. Bensusan

  • They can't stand to see any favorable treatment of ID go uncommented upon, uninsulted, or untagged with statements that amount to "THIS IS ALL A BUNCH OF CRAP!!!!

    California Literary Review 2009

  • They can't stand to see any favorable treatment of ID go uncommented upon, uninsulted, or untagged with statements that amount to "THIS IS ALL A BUNCH OF CRAP!!!!

    California Literary Review 2009

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