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After which he was left undisturbed, and unencouraged, until the local milkman, who'd heard him on his morning rounds, somehow talked the family into getting the kid lessons.

From Time Magazine Archive

To such a nature the solitary years in Paris, the solitary return to California, the tentative and unencouraged approaches to her nieces, all made a dark memory.

From The Story of Julia Page by Norris, Kathleen Thompson

She on her part was one of the most loyal and most refined of women, the mother of wonderful children, and the very effective though unencouraged worker by his side for many years.

From The American Country Girl by Crow, Martha Foote

If this abundance all slighted and unencouraged can still comfort us, what wouldn't it do for us tended and fostered and cultivated?

From Within the Rim and Other Essays by James, Henry

Are you realizing what this all meant to my Carl—until recently reading and pegging away unencouraged in his basement study up on the Berkeley hills?

From An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker by Parker, Cornelia Stratton