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"Ah, you see, it's a long while since the governor was here, and his memory fails him," remarked Mr. Charles Larkyns, very unfilially.

From Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green by Bede, Cuthbert

"Shucks!" cried Absalom, unfilially; "ye'd a heap better be a-studyin' 'bout'n my good now 'n whenst I war a baby—a-givin' away my child ter them Quimbeys; a-h'istin' him out'n the winder!"

From The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge and Other Stories by Murfree, Mary Noailles

I don't know whether to speak to Abner," the other proceeded unfilially, "or the great Penny first.

From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Hergesheimer, Joseph

Even Châteaubriand most unfilially classes him and Voltaire together.

From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell

She has, moreover, her intervals of sternness, when she boxes ears; now in case of her father, unfilially, and anon in more righteous conflict with her step-mother's wicked lover.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various