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He had arrived here without luggage, shabby, unrecommended, yet no princely compatriot of his own could have been made more sensible of welcome.

From Max by Thurston, Katherine Cecil

He invariably partook of snuff when an unknown and unrecommended applicant presented himself in his sanctum.

From Petticoat Rule by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

During our stay, he admitted me into his apartments, and filled my box with delicious Spanish snuff, and shewed us every attention we would wish, and much more than, as unrecommended strangers, we could expect.

From A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, 1777 Volume 1 by Thicknesse, Philip

To my Publishers, for the aid their tact, their energy, their practical sense and frank liberality have afforded an unknown and unrecommended Author.

From Jane Eyre by Townsend, F. H.

Absent, and unrecommended by any, he was preferred by the monarch to the laurel- crowned band of his heroes, and the result gave him no cause to repent of his choice.

From History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 01 by Schiller, Friedrich