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  • But in fact, he plods humbly along, and repeats with patient toil the example of labor and unspeculating perseverance that his fathers have set him.

    The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various

  • He simply stood listening, fixed and motionless, like some uncouth statue in the leafy hollow of a garden, stony, unspeculating.

    The Return Walter De la Mare 1914

  • The record of the visual world fell through his eyes upon his unspeculating mind as on a sensitized plate through the lens of a camera.

    Youth And Two Other Stories 1899

  • He was no nearer when we walked and talked than now while I read these unarranged, unspeculating pages, wherein the only life he loved with his whole heart reflects itself as in the still water of a pool.

    Synge and the Ireland of His Time 1897

  • The record of the visual world fell through his eyes upon his unspeculating mind as on a sensitized plate through the lens of a camera.

    The End of the Tether Joseph Conrad 1890

  • Inexplicable even to himself was that feeling, so nearly approaching to real sorrow, which the worldly lawyer felt at the prospect of losing his guileless and unspeculating brother.

    Paul Clifford — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Inexplicable even to himself was that feeling, so nearly approaching to real sorrow, which the worldly lawyer felt at the prospect of losing his guileless and unspeculating brother.

    Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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