Example Sentences

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But scorn not us, who, in sincerity, have sought With unaverted gaze to find the light divine.

From Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance by Holcomb, Martha A. Lyon

His appearance enforced these impressions—his handsome face, his radiant, unaverted eyes, his childish, unmodulated voice.

From Roderick Hudson by James, Henry

"Was he not driven forth by rude and cruel taunts, the rather?" said the hermit, gazing with unaverted eye on the haughty chieftain.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John

With unaverted eyes he gazed at the fireplace, where the sparks were dancing.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various

For all that she was of exceptional intellectual enterprise, she had never yet considered these things with unaverted eyes.

From Ann Veronica, a modern love story by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)