unconstraint

Example Sentences

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She reassured and welcomed me with a natural smile, and pursued her occupation with quiet cheerfulness and unconstraint.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various

Among them were a number of tall men, lean and sinewy, with a sweep of line and unconstraint of gesture that smacked of hunters' ways and mountain exercise.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

Nothing gives such an air of grace and elegance and unconstraint to a German or an English conversation as to scatter it full of "Also's" or "You knows."

From A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 by Twain, Mark

His quick assumption that Agnes was at his disposal if he chose to woo her had been mere fatuity; he misread her perfect simplicity of demeanour, the unconstraint of her intellectual sympathies.

From The Odd Women by Gissing, George

At table Mr. Shanner gave no undue signs of modesty or self-distrust, but talked about "things within his experience" with the utmost unconstraint.

From An Engagement of Convenience A Novel by Zangwill, Louis