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At sight of a junior, even so unformidable a junior as Viola Vincent, poor little Lobelia Parkins shrank into a small knotted heap of misery.

From Peggy by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)

Big Jack Barry, the man who remained cold and unruffled in vital physical crises, met this second encounter with a very unformidable girl in different manner from the first.

From Gold Out of Celebes by Dingle, Aylward Edward

Had Brasshay only caught him then, in that period of reaction, he would have found him unformidable as of old; but Brasshay did not know.

From King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties by Housman, Laurence

Then, too, though Eradicate was old, he was strong and he still held the long handle of the whitewash brush, no unformidable weapon.

From Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]

Sitting behind his massive oak desk, chair tilted back, apple juice dappling his whiskers, he looked so small and unformidable, that Colihan took heart.

From The Success Machine by Slesar, Henry