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The meat should have a good amount of sear on it but at the same time there should be some unseared portions as well.
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Even her pleasures, were the man to prove better than she expects, coming to her with an abatement, like that which persons who are in possession of ill-gotten wealth must then most poignantly experience (if they have reflecting and unseared minds) when, all their wishes answered, (if answered,) they sit down in hopes to enjoy what they have unjustly obtained, and find their own reflections their greatest torment.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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This conflict may be where sin is in the throne, and may deceive themselves, supposing it to be from the rule of grace, when it is only from the rebellion of light and the charge of a conscience yet unseared.
A Treatise of the Dominion of Sin and Grace 1616-1683 1965
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CHOKEPEAR looks round about him airily, contentedly; as though his conscience was as unseared as the green holly that decorates the pews; as though his heart was fresh, and red, and spotless as its berries.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 25, 1841 Various
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Doctor Q, wildly excited, started to beat out the flames, and in so doing allowed several unseared letters to flutter to the floor.
The Master Mystery John W. Grey 1908
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If this critical period is once safely passed, the individual is comparatively safe; but how many fail to pass through the ordeal unseared!
Plain Facts for Old and Young John Harvey Kellogg 1897
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If not -- if it be His will that I suffer in a righteous cause -- I will do it with a soul unseared by coward falsehood.
In the Days of Chivalry Evelyn Everett-Green 1894
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Words like these, I observed, always troubled them; and I had no small satisfaction in drawing out from them, as I occasionally did, that fresh and bitter condemnation of slavery which ever springs from natures unseared and unperverted.
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If this critical period is once safely passed, the individual is comparatively safe; but how many fail to pass through the ordeal unseared!
Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life. 1877
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For he was innocence, and that is highly tender and sensitive, being unseared.
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