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It is said that absence is like death, and that through its softening shadow, faults, and even vices, assume a gentle and unforbidding aspect.

From Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel by Hentz, Caroline Lee

Her little son clung to her dress half frightened at the attitude of his mother, and the stern and unforbidding aspect of Mr. Elder.

From The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution by Abrams, Alex St. Clair

Poor thieves usually at least shave their faces, and try to look unforbidding.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 by Various

He would continue his work on Athor until he had gathered assurance from that unforbidding face.

From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth

So, unforbidding, have we met, And gently here have laid her, Though winter is no time to get The flowers that should o’erspread her: XII.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett