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  • This done, Mr. Moon orders her burial, and the jury hasten home, fully confident of having performed their duty unswerved.

    An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

  • No one who has not spent some time under martial law knows how hard it is and how _rare_ for men in office to follow such a course, unswerved by either flattery or ambition.

    Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) Elizabeth Ware [Editor] Pearson

  • Usually I am alert enough to control these errant reactions, but I am keenly aware of their demands upon my mind, and frequently it is only with conscious effort that I am kept upon my way unswerved by them, though not unmoved.

    Applied Psychology for Nurses Mary F. Porter

  • There was something sublime in his moral courage, and something extraordinary in the steadiness with which, unswerved by the changing circumstances about him, he pursued his fixed purposes.

    Frederick Douglass 1906

  • That such a migration should break in waves over Canadian life and leave it untouched, uninfluenced, unswerved, is as inconceivable as that the

    The Canadian Commonwealth 1903

  • After years abroad under the foremost masters and other years of self-trial with every favorable circumstance his, nature had one day pointed her unswerved finger at his latest canvas as at the earlier ones and had judged him to the quick: you will never be a great painter.

    A Cathedral Singer James Lane Allen 1887

  • Here was a man, remarkable not only for his high office, but also for the solemn times in which he was called to fill that office; a man summoned to the administration of affairs in troubled times, who so kept the middle path of justice, unswerved by

    The Assassination of President Lincoln 1865

  • Gentle in his strength, unobtrusive in his modesty, and unswerved by partisan clamor, he endeavors to do what he -- from his personal and political standpoint -- regards as right.

    Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Benjamin Perley Poore 1853

  • Page 58 some tender plant, and not only to shed sweet dews around me, and keep every weed from my side, but to prop me with truth, and preserve my upward tendencies unswerved.

    Recollections of a Southern matron, 1838

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