Example Sentences

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Upon the world of allied assailants that pressed him back—back—ever back on dwindling millions and then shrinking hundreds of thousands he turned a fierce and unsurrendering face.

From Destiny by Buck, Charles Neville

Not only pagan Perseus but the Cross Is shrouded—with wild wind and wilder rain, That on me beat until my soul again Sings unsurrendering to fears of Loss.

From Sea Poems by Rice, Cale Young

The face of one wholly in protest, and life-long unsurrendering battle, against the world.

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas

We are, indeed, still in a most unsurrendering mood.

From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Labouchere, Henry

He has a most unsurrendering face, but I do not think that he would either hold out vain hopes to the Parisians, or flatter their vanity.

From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Labouchere, Henry