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  • He passed along in front of the Scottish lines barefoot, with the crucifix in his hand, and in few but forcible words, exhorted them by every sacred hope, to fight with an unreceding step for their rights, their king, and the corse of William Wallace!

    The Scottish Chiefs 1875

  • Why then this unreceding determination to invade us?

    The Scottish Chiefs 1875

  • Impelled by growing curiosity, I glanced in the direction she indicated, and met the unreceding gaze of a pair of dark, intense eyes, that seemed to burn in their sockets.

    Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Caroline Lee Hentz 1828

  • His bold, unreceding eye; -- not thus should a father gaze upon his child.

    Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Caroline Lee Hentz 1828

  • Why then this unreceding determination to invade us?

    The Scottish Chiefs Jane Porter 1813

  • He passed along in front of the Scottish lines barefoot, with the crucifix in his hand, and in few but forcible words exhorted them by every sacred hope, to fight with an unreceding step for their rights, their king, and the corpse of William Wallace!

    The Scottish Chiefs Jane Porter 1813

  • There was an unreceding something in her liquid blue eyes, when he chanced to meet them, which displeased him; and he could not help seeing that from the instant she entered the room she had seldom ceased staring in his face.

    Thaddeus of Warsaw Jane Porter 1813

  • To recapitulate the memorable events of the threatened royal freedom of Poland, by the three formidable foreign powers confederated for its annihilation, and in repelling which General Kosciusko took so gallant a lead, is not here necessary to connect our memoranda concerning his unreceding struggles to maintain her political existence.

    Thaddeus of Warsaw Jane Porter 1813

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