unconstraint

Example Sentences

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Princely unconstraint has the privilege of experiment, and what is frailty in a plebeian is only frolic in a duchess.

From The Man Who Laughs by Hugo, Victor

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

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

Loulou was the first to have pity on Wilhelm's discomfort, and to find means to give their intercourse in Berlin at least a little of the beautiful unconstraint of the old times.

From The Malady of the Century by Nordau, Max Simon

This course seemed to be demanded by the spirit to which he had dedicated himself,—the spirit of absolute unconstraint.

From Whitman A Study by Burroughs, John