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And yet, still self-reproachfully, he also continued to search his soul concerning his own country, "our great unxix endowed, unfurnished, unentertained? unentertaining continent, where [...] we ought to have leisure to turn out something handsome from the very heart of simple human nature."
'The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872-1876, Volume 1' 2009
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So we will sit immobile for that last hour of incoming international flights, unentertained, unblanketed, and untoileted, and that will do the trick.
Harry Shearer: Airport Security: Everything but Accountability 2009
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Maybe CIO: seems like Wonderbaby is happyish to go to bed at night, but just not to stay there unentertained until morning.
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So we will sit immobile for that last hour of incoming international flights, unentertained, unblanketed, and untoileted, and that will do the trick.
Harry Shearer: Airport Security: Everything but Accountability 2009
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Maybe CIO: seems like Wonderbaby is happyish to go to bed at night, but just not to stay there unentertained until morning.
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It was unhealthy, morbid, to sit there unentertained.
WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories Holland, Barbara 1999
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But from an inscrutable something in her appearance, Billy judged she was not unentertained by his sufferings.
The Palace of Darkened Windows Mary Hastings Bradley
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She had not known or expected and conditions other than those she was familiar with -- the conditions of being fed and clothed, kept clean and exercised, but totally unloved and unentertained.
The Head of the House of Coombe Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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He of these emissaries whose post was assigned him in this county of Bucks adventured to thrust himself upon a Friend under the counterfeit appearance or a Quaker, but being by the Friend suspected, and thereupon dismissed unentertained, he was forced to betake himself to an inn or alehouse for accommodation.
The History of Thomas Ellwood Written by Himself Ellwood, Thomas, 1639-1713 1885
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It is a slumber, too, unterrified, unentertained by dreams.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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