unmurmuring
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Their grateful reception of this intervention in their behalf, their unmurmuring hearts at past suffering, would form a bright example to hundreds possessing perfect independence and no cares.
From Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. XLII., May 1851 by Various
I have wondered at your fortitude and disinterested interest in others,—I have wondered at your Christian submission, your unmurmuring resignation, and I wonder still.
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee
Sternly, unremittingly, since the fair July night when Richard had left her nearly five years earlier, she had schooled herself into unmurmuring resignation and calm.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas
His faculties seemed walled up in him, and were unmurmuring in their captivity.
From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte
I was a slave unmurmuring; he hath said, But for his rescue I with thee had fled.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
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