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In a society of temperate, industrious, unspeculative beavers, such a beaver-man would make an ideal King-beaver.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus, compared with the literature of the eighteenth century, it was unspeculative; compared with that of the Middle Ages, unspiritual.

From Landmarks in French Literature by Strachey, Giles Lytton

The fisherman Peter does not think with the mind of the theologically trained Paul, nor does the unspeculative James phrase his beliefs in terms identical with those of the writer to the Hebrews.

From Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking by Coffin, Henry Sloane

No careful mother had sullied her mind with warnings and suggestions, and her mind was by nature unspeculative as to the material side of life.

From The Ghost Girl by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)

Green should detect in this far-reaching effort of the Protector, only the dulled vision of "a conservative and unspeculative temper misled by the strength of religious enthusiasm."

From The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)