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Their rock-like steadfastness and constant unimpulsive bravery, it was that enabled him to carry out his plans with such certainty.

From Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century by Francis, George Henry

Mercy combined, in a very singular manner, some of the traits of an impulsive nature with those of an unimpulsive one.

From Mercy Philbrick's Choice by Jackson, Helen Hunt

I saunter all about the pleasant place   You made thrice pleasant, O my friends, to me; But you are gone where laughs in radiant grace   That thousand-memoried unimpulsive sea.

From The Poems of William Watson by Watson, William

O'Brien, too, staid and unimpulsive as was his character, deliberate and circumspect as were his habits, was evidently inclined to give the weight of his name and influence to this "advanced" party.

From Speeches from the Dock, Part I by Various

Something in Jacinth's premature wisdom—almost savouring of 'worldly' wisdom—rather repelled her, careful and unimpulsive though she herself was.

From Robin Redbreast A Story for Girls by Barnes, Robert