unsubmissive

Example Sentences

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They are ironic, determined, weary, languorous, gazing out from half-closed eyes, unsubmissive.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2017

Poor old Applehead had never before attempted to browbeat a woman, and her unsubmissive silence seemed to his bachelor mind uncanny.

From The Heritage of the Sioux by Bower, B. M.

Amid the glut of noises, upon that still tepid and unsubmissive expanse where cold death sits brooding, that sharp profile has fallen back.

From Light by Wray, Fitzwater

Or up endeavor's unsubmissive slope Advance a bosom of desire, and bow A back of patience in a thankless task?

From Undertones by Cawein, Madison J.

The emperor gave him these instructions: “Subdue and pacify the savage deities, and likewise the unsubmissive people of the twelve roads57 of the East.”

From Japan by Murray, David