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  • It will do all that common sense and applied medical science can do to strengthen the body; then it will take what life brings in the way of unavoidable disease and weakness and inability, with an uncringing mind.

    Applied Psychology for Nurses Mary F. Porter

  • Whatever secret fears were in his heart, remembering his former teachers, who had taught with the rod, he stood up straight and uncringing before the American teacher, his cap respectfully doffed.

    The Promised Land Mary Antin 1915

  • Whatever secret fears were in his heart, remembering his former teachers, who had taught with the rod, he stood up straight and uncringing before the American teacher, his cap respectfully doffed.

    The Promised Land 1912

  • Whatever secret fears were in his heart, remembering his former teachers, who had taught with the rod, he stood up straight and uncringing before the American teacher, his cap respectfully doffed.

    The Promised Land Antin, Mary, 1881-1949 1912

  • But he was firm with a manliness that was uncringing before insolence, and did not shrink from speaking home truths that pruned the injurious branches of the will; yet he never could be insulting, because he had no selfish end.

    Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888

  • Her independent and uncringing nature as shown in another little touch of Shakespeare (see IV. iv.

    Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies Charlotte Endymion Porter 1900

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