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  • HEMMER: Hardly the first time a politician has found his words, well, reaching an unintending audience, right?

    CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2004 2004

  • In her sleep, all unintending, she had launched her weaponry.

    The Captain's Daughter Peter David 2000

  • In her sleep, all unintending, she had launched her weaponry.

    The Captain's Daughter Peter David 2000

  • In her sleep, all unintending, she had launched her weaponry.

    The Captain's Daughter Peter David 2000

  • Let us be reconciled to his pain and not reproach the gods with it, -- for two of his unintending adversary's ribs were cracked.

    The Conquest of Canaan Booth Tarkington 1907

  • Let us be reconciled to his pain and not reproach the gods with it, -- for two of his unintending adversary's ribs were cracked.

    The Conquest of Canaan 1905

  • He wasn't soon to forget them, was to think of them, all unconscious, unintending, preoccupied though they were, as the source of the deepest intellectual sounding to which he had ever been exposed.

    The Ambassadors Henry James 1879

  • He wasn’t soon to forget them, was to think of them, all unconscious, unintending, preoccupied though they were, as the source of the deepest intellectual sounding to which he had ever been exposed.

    The Ambassadors 2003

  • Without awaiting a reply, he made, it is said, a well-understood signal with his hand; and the unintending offender was beheaded on the spot. "

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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