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  • The strange, old, uncounted, unregistered, unreckoning days of the ancient heathen world.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • Passed on to her fellows, it was caught up with an ardour equally mad and unreckoning.

    Missy Dana Gatlin

  • Into that -- whether for sanctuary or driven by some unreckoning panic, they did not know -- but into that he plunged, the last sight either Hollister or Lawanne ever had of him.

    The Hidden Places Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

  • He envied Claude his fine physique and his unreckoning, impulsive vitality, as if they had been given to his brother by unfair means and should rightly have been his.

    XVI. Book One: On Lovely Creek 1922

  • There were those, too, who thought that perhaps the country had lost something in all its gaining; that perhaps there was less idealism and less unreckoning hospitality in the brick house on the hill than there once had been in the sod shack In the hollow.

    The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West Robert J. C. Stead 1919

  • Why, then, did he not feel that intoxication of the senses, that unreckoning fury of the male, that would have favored any young blood of the French colony?

    The Sacrificial Altar 1916

  • He envied Claude his fine physique and his unreckoning, impulsive vitality, as if they had been given to his brother by unfair means and should rightly have been his.

    One of Ours Willa Sibert Cather 1910

  • I found there the spirit of the wander-lust which has lured Albion's sons across the zones; and I found there the colossal unreckoning which has tricked the

    The Sea Wife 1903

  • As the girl looked at him something of his unreckoning courage passed into her.

    The Right of Way — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • As the girl looked at him something of his unreckoning courage passed into her.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

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