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  • I'm an unwaving Obama supporter ... can hardly wait for 01-20-09!!

    Obama targets McCain, limits mentions of Clinton 2008

  • He was almost as black as the alley itself, his hair slicked back, a toothpick in the corner of his mouth, the gun cocked and unwaving.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • He was almost as black as the alley itself, his hair slicked back, a toothpick in the corner of his mouth, the gun cocked and unwaving.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • Almayer's words had dried Nina's tears, and her look grew hard as she stared before her into the limitless sheet of blue that shone limpid, unwaving, and steady like heaven itself.

    Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river Joseph Conrad 1890

  • Not a leaf stirred on the autumnal trees, but the moist damps fell slowly and with a mournful murmur upon the unwaving grass.

    Eugene Aram — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • And now, among the unwaving pines, there was a silver shimmer as the moon rose into her empire, and deepened at once, along the universal scene, the loveliness and the awe.

    Godolphin, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Not a breeze stirred the dark cypress and unwaving pine.

    Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • The moon, that flatterer of decay, shed its rich and softening beauty over a spot which else had, indeed, been desolate and cheerless, and kissed into light the long and unwaving herbage which rose at intervals from the ruins, like the false parasites of fallen greatness.

    Falkland, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • And now, among the unwaving pines, there was a silver shimmer as the moon rose into her empire, and deepened at once, along the universal scene, the loveliness and the awe.

    Godolphin, Volume 4. Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Not a leaf stirred on the autumnal trees, but the moist damps fell slowly and with a mournful murmur upon the unwaving grass.

    Eugene Aram — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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