305 examples of unbent in sentences

So she had unbent and thought herself soon after somewhat reckless; it was a little wanton and unfair to bring him back.

He must be in his eightieth year; he has been ill and seems feeble, but he is still the majestic old man, unbent in figure and undimmed in eye.

Mazes became eccentric, the prison unbent itself; the interior experienced an undefinable reverberation from the outside.

Appollo hence a great suspition growes: Yeare not so pleasaunt now as earst in companie; Ye walke alone and wander solitarie; The pleasaunt toyes we did frequent sometime Are worne away and growne out of prime; Your Instrument hath lost his siluer sound, That rang of late through all this grouie ground; Your bowe, wherwith the chace you did frequent, Is closde in case and long hath been unbent.

" The pride of the woman was still unbent.

"Ha!" said the First Lord, "as you would not come to us, we have unbent our dignity and come to you.

But, with all his politeness, he never unbent, even in the society of his most intimate friends, so jealous was he of his dignity and power.

He was also a fascinating man when he unbent; was affable, intelligent, accessible, and unstilted.

And so we march along singing and playing as if to a feast, and stopping only to laugh prodigiously when one or other fell out of tune,the most mad, light-hearted fools in the world;but I speak not of Don Sanchez, who, feel what he might, never relaxed his high bearing or unbent his serious countenance.

Others so much worse off than I have fought; Have smiledhave met defeat with unbent head They shame me into following where they led.

Unbent the sails and struck yards and topmasts.

The captain had also unbent in another direction, and Mr. Wilks, to his great satisfaction, was allowed to renew his visits to Equator Lodge and assist his old master in the garden.

The complete torpor came at last; the fingers lost their tension, the arms unbent; then the little head fell away from the bosom, and the blue eyes of the child opened wide on the cold starlight.

Of course we all joined in, as only Englishmen can, and this became so infectious that even the staid mandarins unbent and added their quota to the noise.

The noisy drum-beat slackened, And silenced was its roar When Andreas the dauntless, Stepped through the prison door; The "Sandwirt", fettered still, yet free, Stood on the wall with unbent knee, The hero of Tyrol.

Then reflecting that Pringle was not in any way involved, he unbent slightly, and said something that sounded like: "Haryer, Pringle?" Pringle, despite his stalwart masculine appearance, had in speaking a surprisingly high, squeaky voice.

H.M.S. "Vestal," commanded by that active young officer, Captain C.B. Hamilton, was stationed at Cuba for the suppression of slavery, &c. She had been watching some suspicious vessels in the harbour for a long time; but as they showed no symptoms of moving, she unbent sails and commenced painting, &

It was a surprise to him one afternoon to find that his wife had so far unbent as to tidy up the parlour.

They say that he compels his wife to do all the drudgery, while he does nothing but hunt and amuse himself; forgetting that, upon his activity and power of endurance as a hunter, depends the support of his family; that this is labor of the most fatiguing kind, and that it is absolutely necessary that he should keep his frame unbent by burdens and unworn by toil, that he may be able to obtain the means of subsistence.

The stately figure which bore itself so majestically in Courts and Parliaments naturally unbent among the costermongers of Whitechapel and the labourers of Dorsetshire.

He amused himself by throwing spray on Katy with his oars, and he even ventured to sprinkle the dignified Miss Minorkey a little, and she unbent enough to make a cup of her white palm and to dip it into the clear water and dash a good, solid handful of it into the face of her lover.

A frigate with sails unbent lies at anchor.

She never unbent, and while her beauty and extraordinary type attracted all the men she came across they soon gave up their pursuit.

"She is most forbidding, and never once unbent nor became genial, the whole evening.

The corporal in command of the gendarmes was exceedingly curt with me at first, but after a time he unbent and condescended to tell me that my landlord had been denounced for permitting a Bonapartiste club to hold its sittings in his house.

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