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But so natural and unfanciful a thing as a full stop to the tension left us stupefied.

From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John

This has meant something in the psychology of so unfanciful a race.

From The California Birthday Book by Various

I cannot help being angry and somewhat fretful at this; he has, to be sure, strong parts, but he is a coarse, unlettered, unfanciful dog.'

From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman

I was also conscious of an unfanciful and very prosaic emptiness.

From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Bindloss, Harold

Urgent distress throws us back upon our real and unfanciful wants.

From Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. by De Quincey, Thomas