Example Sentences

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He did that which hath proven him not the unforeseeing time-server of a bloodthirsty man, but a follower of his own conscience and the servant of his own zeal.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth

After all, she had only known a little part of the miserable struggle in which he had been engaged thus unequipped, poor, and unforeseeing.

From Jude the Obscure by Hardy, Thomas

A corrupt and improvident loan, like everything else corrupt or prodigal, cannot be too much condemned; but there is a short-sighted parsimony still more fatal than an unforeseeing expense.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

While this desperation continued, his dull and unforeseeing mind suggested no way to find a place of safety.

From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous

And then he seemed to discern in her something that was familiar, something which carried him back into a joyous and unforeseeing past, before the necessity of taking thought had made the heavens gray.

From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Hardy, Thomas