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I have no intention of unasking him, I just need to know … how do I tell my biological father?

From Slate • Oct. 11, 2019

In sweet trust, asking or unasking, we abide ever in Thee.

From The Optimist's Good Morning by Perin, Florence Hobart

Did this cold hand unasking want relieve, Or wake the lyre to every rapturous sound?

From On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions by Felton, Samuel

He honestly had meant to continue histrionically suppressed, unasking, admirable.

From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel

And on Sundays and holidays—for of these latter he took, unasking, what he knew to be his due—all day long, from cock-crowing to the going down of the sun, he would pass at Kenmuir.

From Bob, Son of Battle by Ollivant, Alfred