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Discomfited but unsubmitting, the Graphic publishd an editorial.

From Time Magazine Archive

The king of England too had experienced the high spirit and unsubmitting temper of Lewis.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. by Hume, David

His determination, on his own account, to carry on the war against the enemy in the mountains, till they or himself were expelled from the country, denotes the unsubmitting patriot.

From The Life of Francis Marion by Simms, William Gilmore

In those nations of antiquity, most celebrated for fortitude and heroism, their youth had never their haughty and unsubmitting neck bowed to the inglorious yoke of a pedagogue.

From Four Early Pamphlets by Godwin, William

Too well the sad result my soul divined, Too well I knew the unsubmitting mind Of Sophonisba would prefer the tomb To stern captivity's ignoble doom.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas