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  • I have seen him when his staff was speaking in voices like quavering reeds because the polls came in looking like death, and there he stood, unshaking and unshakable.

    A Spinner Of Myths 2008

  • Both the unshaking heart of well-persuasive truth, and the beliefs of mortals, in which there is no true trust.

    Presocratic Philosophy Curd, Patricia 2007

  • First came Mr. Crocker, still wearing his hideous mask; then a heavily bearded individual with round spectacles, who looked like an automobile coming through a haystack; then Ogden Ford, and finally a sturdy, determined-looking woman with glittering but poorly co-ordinated eyes, who held a large revolver in her unshaking right hand and looked the very embodiment of the modern female who will stand no nonsense.

    Piccadilly Jim 1928

  • The hands of both as they flitted and darted about bandages or torn flesh were swift moving, but steady and unshaking as steel pieces of machinery.

    Between the Lines Boyd Cable 1910

  • On the opposite side of the bed stood the sepulchral Jarvis, flashing malign looks at Crown, but chiefly busy, with unshaking hands, preparing a beverage of some sort for the sick man.

    No Clue A Mystery Story James Hay 1908

  • "It was in the Rue de la Bueire, M'sieur," the little maid asserted with quiet conviction, poising the trophy of confectionery for Madame Huard with an unshaking hand.

    War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war 1906

  • Nevertheless Farrington took out his watch and held it in his unshaking palm; for the space of a hundred and eighty seconds there was no sound in the room save the loud ticking of the watch.

    The Secret House Edgar Wallace 1903

  • He could see again his fingers, bloody, but unshaking, handing the old doctor a needle and silk cord.

    The Doctor : a Tale of the Rockies Ralph Connor 1898

  • Dodd waved his hand without a word, and another man rose from the deck, and took his place in silence, and laid his unshaking hand on the wheel stained with that man's warm blood whose place he took.

    Great Sea Stories Various 1897

  • Anyone who's followed my 'top lists' recently will probably know of my unshaking love of Terius 'The-Dream' Nash.

    The Line Of Best Fit Rich Hughes 2010

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