unstinging

Example Sentences

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"Maybe it's too early yet for the unstringing to begin!"

From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Wister, Owen

The remembered fact brought with it a degradation of mind and body—a complete unstringing of the moral fibres, which made even revenge seem an impossible output of energy.

From The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Uncle says that after you have been at work very hard it’s like unstringing the bow; and so it is.

From The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)

I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument.

From Gitanjali by Tagore, Rabindranath

His liveliest sallies, his bitterest jests, were all reserved for these occasions, so that mirth or anger was forever unstringing the nerves of his competitors, and diminishing their chance of gain.

From Bred in the Bone by Payn, James