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The other is a call which is answered in some measure even by voices that are often dumb in unthankfulness, often broken by sobs, often murmuring in penitence.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms by Maclaren, Alexander

The German, on the other hand, in order to prove to you the general proposition of the unthankfulness of men to their benefactors, gives you the instance that has recently happened.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 334, October 4, 1828 by Various

If nothing, he cries out of unthankfulness; if little, that he is basely regarded; if much, he exclaims of flattery, and expectation of a large requital.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

He does not mean, of course, either, to tell us that we are so to cultivate obliviousness as to let God's mercies to us 'lie forgotten in unthankfulness, or without praises die.'

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Maclaren, Alexander

There was a man which had a vineyard green, Who, letting it to husbandmen unkind, Instead of fruit unthankfulness did find.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by Hazlitt, William Carew