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Her husband and Glaucon disdained to join a clamour which could never escape the dreary cavern of the hold, and which only drew the hoots of their unmagnanimous guardians.

From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns

He asked to be prisoned with his brother; but why ask any magnanimity from an unmagnanimous soul?

From 1492 by Johnston, Mary

What unmagnanimous cur could resist such a challenge?

From A Houseful of Girls by Tytler, Sarah

The honest craftsmen of the guilds have an ideal which is praiseworthy and practical, which is mediocre and unmagnanimous, which is moral and not artistic.

From Art by Bell, Clive

"Mr. Hamilton defended the abstract principle of right against wrong in defending the wretched Tories against the persecutions of an unmagnanimous public sentiment," said Jay, witheringly.

From The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn