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But after watching Sister Juana’s independent spirit ground into submission the day before, it was refreshing to see our Hetty remaining unsubdued and unrepentant even at the final curtain.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2015
In the end what matters is not whether those demonstrators can sleep in tents, but whether they have the stamina to remain, quiet and unsubdued, in the public space of their choice.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2011
Axis pockets and Axis artillery were left behind, unsubdued.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Then why have we suffered such a land as Narnia to remain thus long unsubdued?"
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
Does not, then, the future peace and safety of society require their reformation?—Should they be sent abroad with hearts unsubdued and rankling with iniquity, what society, family, or individual would be secure?
From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by John N. Reynolds
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