unrecognizing

Example Sentences

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"Are you an angel?" he asked, with unrecognizing eyes.

From The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona by Marsland, Cora

They seemed something alien in that moment; and they, gazing upon her white face and unrecognizing eyes, spoke in awed whispers.

From Wayside Courtships by Garland, Hamlin

"With slight unrecognizing salutation they passed me; plunged down amid the neighboring thickets, onward, to Heaven, and to England; and I, in my friend Richter's words, I remained alone, behind them, with the Night!"

From The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 by Various

As Mrs. Sancy pronounced the last sentence, she seemed for the moment to have forgotten my presence, and stood, looking off over the calm grey sea, with absent unrecognizing gaze.

From The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems by Victor, Frances Fuller

How could these blank, unrecognizing eyes be Hugh's eyes, which had never until now met hers without love?

From Red Pottage by Cholmondeley, Mary