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  • Gospel are far more severe than to our cold, unimpulsive northern natures.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

  • O'Brien, too, staid and unimpulsive as was his character, deliberate and circumspect as were his habits, was evidently inclined to give the weight of his name and influence to this "advanced" party.

    Speeches from the Dock, Part I Various

  • In short, Caroline's manner had always been so conventional and unimpulsive, that these complaints of life had seemed to him a part of her society-tone, aa easily taken on and off as her bonnet or her _paletot_.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 Various

  • Jacinth's usually cold unimpulsive nature was strongly moved; there is always something impressive and touching in the emotion of the aged.

    Robin Redbreast A Story for Girls Mrs. Molesworth 1880

  • Something in Jacinth's premature wisdom -- almost savouring of 'worldly' wisdom -- rather repelled her, careful and unimpulsive though she herself was.

    Robin Redbreast A Story for Girls Mrs. Molesworth 1880

  • Spanish Peninsula, was to be expected among the unimpulsive population of the North German plains; but the military circles of Prussia were generally in favour of war, and an insurrection of the population west of the Elbe was not improbable in the event of Napoleon's army being defeated by

    A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 Charles Alan Fyffe 1868

  • A right good unimpulsive gentleman: the same that she had always taken him for and liked.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • A right good unimpulsive gentleman: the same that she had always taken him for and liked.

    Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • A right good unimpulsive gentleman: the same that she had always taken him for and liked.

    Diana of the Crossways — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

  • Gospel are far more severe than to our cold, unimpulsive northern natures.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago 1867

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