unassured

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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

And when Dorothea was present she studied her too: she cast fleeting, searching, unassured glances at them—at Daniel and at Dorothea.

From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson

But we did not then venture to quote any long passages from the original, unassured how they might look on our page to the eyes of Young Britain.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various

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

When the answer came, it was strangely deprecatory, uncertain, unassured.

From Vera, the Medium by Davis, Richard Harding