Example Sentences

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Look, the work declares in a most unchildlike way, in the world we have this, and this, and this; now let art try putting this next to that, and see what changes.

From Time Magazine Archive

But whether Bobby sings wistful or swingy songs in his reedy, choirboy voice, he goes at them with expert, unchildlike, vaudeville-stage punctilio.

From Time Magazine Archive

Arthur looked at him with a strange unchildlike expression.

From The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle by Stokes, Katherine

He lay in silence with closed eyes and compressed lips, a most unchildlike expression on his thin boyish face.

From Old Mr. Wiley by Spina, Fanny Greye la

During its passing, she lived through a wild, unchildlike woe of which she never spoke to any one about her.

From A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Burnett, Frances Hodgson