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Going out with the disadvantage of a habit of mind uncounteracted by an intellectual aim, will never do.

From How to Observe Morals and Manners by Martineau, Harriet

He has even by the ‘burr, burr, burr’, uncounteracted by any preceding description of the boy’s beauty, assisted in recalling them.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David

What conditions in the life of a student may, if uncounteracted, lead to poor health?

From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.

For infinite repulsion, uncounteracted and alone, is tantamount to infinite, dimensionless diffusion, and this again to infinite weakness; viz., to space.

From Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

He was even by the "burr, burr, burr," uncounteracted by any preceding description of the boy's beauty, assisted in recalling them.

From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor