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The strong unstaggering breeze abounded so, that sky and air seemed vast outbellying sails; the whole world boomed before the wind.

From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Melville, Herman

She cultivated a firm and unstaggering confidence in the continued presence of the Holy Spirit in her heart.

From Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. by Young, Duncan McNeill

The strong, unstaggering breeze abounded so, that sky and air seemed vast outbellying sails; the whole world boomed before the wind.

From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Melville, Herman

And yet, erect, unstaggering, with certitude of weight and strength, among these rolled men, these clutching, cowering ones, moved either Mr. Pike or Mr. Mellaire. 

From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by London, Jack

Catching at her ankle and flinging her curls, she made an unstaggering and easy ascent of not four, but eight.

From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie