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The subject did not appear to be regarded as one ripe for free discussion; therefore the lady and her tenant were suffered to keep details to themselves, unimportuned by the curiosity of their listeners.

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte

So is the blood sometimes: whoever ran To danger unimportuned, he was then No better than a sanguine, virtuous man.

From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson

There is much difference between these people and the Neapolitans; they seem to have no liking for noise, talk with a certain repose, and allow the stranger to go about among them unmolested, unimportuned.

From By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy by Gissing, George