Example Sentences

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She renounces every superfluity, submits cheerfully to every privation, and slays at once with unreluctant severity, the dearest lusts that twine about her heart.

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Cox, Francis Augustus

The points of deepest interest are introduced, and her darling child is devoted forever, and with unreluctant zeal, to the God of her salvation.

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I by Cox, Francis Augustus

This is not so much, however, an intensification of an already existent secondary accent, as in, for example, Shelley's The eager hours and unreluctant years.

From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin

We grapple in love and wrestle, as each with other    Wrestle the wind and the unreluctant sea.

From Songs Before Sunrise by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Meanwhile, unreluctant, Earth like Dana� lies; Listen! is it fancy, That beneath us sighs, As that warm lap receives the largesse of the skies?

From The Poems of Henry Timrod by Timrod, Henry