unrecognizing
Example Sentences
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As Mrs. Sancy pronounced the last sentence, she seemed for the moment to have forgotten my presence, and stood, looking off over the calm grey sea, with absent unrecognizing gaze.
From The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems by Frances Fuller Victor
With unrecognizing eyes turned upon him, slightly bowing a greeting in return, she passed on.
From In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India by Emily Churchill Thompson Sheets
That first, best occasion has passed, and the unrecognized, unrecognizing Envoy has given offence, and not comfort, by a presence that seemed constantly to say, I do not think you can sustain yourselves.
From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Arthur B. Fuller
How could these blank, unrecognizing eyes be Hugh's eyes, which had never until now met hers without love?
From Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley
He had heard the wailing of the harbor sirens but his eyes had been unseeing—at least unrecognizing.
From The Tyranny of Weakness by Paul Stahr
