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
They were no longer dull, dead, emotionless, but aglow with returning life—puzzled, unassured, yet clearly conscious.
From The Devil's Own A Romance of the Black Hawk War by Parrish, Randall
You enter the realm of death and the slain earth's dust alone sleeps beneath your unassured feet.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.
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
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
