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Such disorder is never to be suffered in a commonwealth, nor such unseasonable and unloving and unperforming marriages, which attain no due end or fruit; any provident governor or lawgiver might say to an old man that takes a young wife what is said to Philoctetes in the tragedy, —

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

There did not remain above seven hundred of the old Spartan families, of which perhaps one hundred might have estates in land, the rest were destitute alike of wealth and of honor, were tardy and unperforming in the defense of their country against its enemies abroad, and eagerly watched the opportunity for change and revolution at home.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

For when the plague evidently spread itself, they soon began to see the folly of trusting to those unperforming creatures who had gulled them of their money; and then their fears worked another way, namely, to amazement and stupidity, not knowing what course to take or what to do either to help or relieve themselves.

A Journal Of The Plague Year Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1935

There is an impatience of toil -- of its duration at least -- in the southern mind, which leaves it too frequently unperforming.

Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story William Gilmore Simms 1838

For when the plague evidently spread itself, they soon began to see the folly of trusting to those unperforming creatures who had gulled them of their money; and then their fears worked another way, namely, to amazement and stupidity, not knowing what course to take or what to do either to help or relieve themselves.

A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London Daniel Defoe 1696

While the banks are accused of failing to lend new money to small companies, it appears that they are also failing to foreclose on some stragglers in their portfolios for fear of having to crystalise unperforming loans in their own books.

This is Money | Home 2010

So there are billions and billions of dollars of unperforming loans still on the balance sheets ...

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

No cold or unperforming hand Was arm'd by heaven with this command.

The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

Now the great drinkers are very dull, inactive fellows, no women’s men at all; they eject nothing strong, vigorous, and fit for generation, but are weak and unperforming, by reason of the bad digestion and coldness of their seed.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Now the great drinkers are very dull, inactive fellows, no women’s men at all; they eject nothing strong, vigorous, and fit for generation, but are weak and unperforming, by reason of the bad digestion and coldness of their seed.

Symposiacs 2004