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Houses sometimes collapsed, and many were unsubstantially shored up.

From Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)

He had dreamt vaguely, unsubstantially, the while he had arranged his pressures and temperatures and infinitesimal ingredients, and worked with goniometer and trial models and the new calculating machine he had contrived for his research.

From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The front-door also grinds on the sill; it can only be opened by force, and quivers in a way that shows how unsubstantially it is made.

From The Nether World by Gissing, George

Nevertheless, though he did not accept what the agents of the packet offered, fate took the matter into its own hands and rewarded him not unsubstantially.

From Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish main by Pyle, Howard

In the latter year he, cautiously indeed, but not unsubstantially, legislated in the direction of free trade.

From The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John