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The southern tower is in this view still unlowered, but it was cut down, to match its fellow in height, soon afterwards.
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On the contrary, the moral demand remained unlowered.
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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As she went, Lady Drummond's unlowered voice followed her.
Mary Gray Katharine Tynan 1896
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He talked to her more than to any one of her sisters, yes! in frank, cheery words with unlowered voice, as a brother might talk to a sister, or a son to his mother.
A Houseful of Girls George de Horne Vaizey 1887
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Girls of nineteen and twenty will settle a dispute of ages with a casual word; students of economy will advance original schemes warranted to wipe the offence of poverty from the globe; science students with unlowered voices will indulge across the dinner-table in scathing criticisms on historic creeds which their fathers hold in reverence; and on each young face, on each young tongue, can be read the same story of certainty and self-esteem.
A College Girl George de Horne Vaizey 1887
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There were small, narrow, arched feet besides her own that trod the uncarpeted floors of outlying log-cabins with equal grace and dignity; bright, clearly opened eyes that were equally capable of looking unabashed upon princes and potentates, as a few later did, and the heiress of the county judge read her own beauty without envy in the frank glances and unlowered crest of the blacksmith's daughter.
On the Frontier Bret Harte 1869
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