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dazzled .
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Examples
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If you're thoroughly undazzled by the query, that's fair enough.
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And a man must take with him an iron sense of truth and right into the world below, that there too he may remain undazzled by wealth or the allurements of evil, and be determined to avoid the extremes and choose the mean.
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With every contradicting statistic to answer, I respectfully submit that we can still today risk subscribing to John Milton's 17th Century view of "a noble and puissant nation, rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks -- viewing her mightly young and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam."
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He taught them how to look on success undazzled -- to bear it with modesty of demeanour, and subordination of spirit.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various
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Her brilliant eyes, as black as night, and as clear as a sunny stream, are full of life, vivacity and mischief; she seems to be laughing at life, and love, and gallantry, and all the complimentary nothings of society, from the height of her superior intellect, and with undazzled eyes.
The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 Anonymous
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In them Daniel, undazzled by the glories around him, remained steadfast to his faith, rose to be a governor amongst his rulers, and prophesied the downfall of the kingdom.
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Quite undazzled by the prospects of becoming Lady Lumley, and reclining on Sir Abraham's elderly bosom, she even went so far as to dub the learned judge a "gouty old rascal," and declared that nothing would induce her to marry him.
The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Horace Wyndham
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Now with undazzled, presumptuous gaze he stands face to face with the Almighty, and records the words falling from His lips; words which he has dared to place in the mouth of the Most High -- words at the utterance of which
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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But now the cloud floats before it, and through its light vapor I see the sun's circular infinity, and admire its beauty and its glory undazzled by its effulgence.
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But, undazzled by his own unprecedented success, he weighed the matter coolly and deliberately.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 Various
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