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
But the weight within was too great; he shuffled with his feet, rolled his eyes, and twisted his hands, like an unassured witness before an acute and not to be deceived judge.
From Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Scott, Walter, Sir
When I said I would try she looked distressfully unassured and I added "I'll do whatever risks no life but mine."
From The Cavalier by Cable, George Washington
And then again the old man fell a wondering at something in them that did not suggest the unassured beginnings of courtship, a settled security of relation as of complete unity in a mutual enterprise.
From The Emigrant Trail by Bonner, Geraldine
This being graciously accorded, the mate, with a most doleful countenance, and a very unassured voice, made answer to the plain interrogative of the Clerk of Arraigns-- "Not guilty, my Lord."
From The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Landor, Edward Wilson
