unmurmuring
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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But the times of this perfect, unquestioning, unmurmuring succumbency under the actual allotment have passed away; except in such regions as the Russian empire, where they have yet long to continue.
From An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance by Foster, John
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
When the time came, he gave up his apparatus to another and returned to the vitiated air on board, calm, unflinching, unmurmuring.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Verne, Jules
The leader of our class for mothers and widows says that it is almost impossible to visit them, their unmurmuring sufferings are so touching.
From God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada by Lowe, Clara M. S.
Jesus Christ has the perfect right to command each of us, and we are bound to bow ourselves, unreluctant, unmurmuring, unhesitating, with complete submission at His feet.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Maclaren, Alexander
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