unassured

Example Sentences

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The passing mention of “civil war” is I believe an unnamed reference to the 1786 Shays’ rebellion which reminds us even from Justice Story’s 1837 vantage that our nation’s continued existence has often been unassured.

From Forbes • May 12, 2015

Still He persisted in his design; and with a voice unassured and frequent interruptions, He contrived to finish the four first lines of the page.

From The Monk; a romance by Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory)

Soon after the ladies left her, she received a message from Henry, requesting, as she saw company, to be permitted to visit her: she consented, and he entered immediately, with an unassured pace.

From Mary A Fiction by Wollstonecraft, Mary

It recalled to her the ways of his pathetic youth, his youth that obscurity made wild and shy and unassured.

From The Divine Fire by Sinclair, May

I felt unassured in regard to my condition, and was half disposed to believe that I was still asleep and imagining horrors!

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Leighton, Alexander