unrecognizing

Example Sentences

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Caroline, opening her eyes from a moment's slumber, viewed her nurse with an unrecognizing glance.

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte

"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

Hast thou not long ago appeared, veiled in an allegory, before an unrecognizing world?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various

The Elder took his seat and glanced round upon them all with solemn unrecognizing severity, while the mourners came down the creaking pine stairway in proper order of procedure.

From Other Main-Travelled Roads by Garland, Hamlin

The boys stared at the elegant young lady in mourning, and even her mother gazed for one moment with grave, unrecognizing scrutiny.

From The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax by Lee, Holme, [pseud.]