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Truly I think she'll be very glad indeed to release me from my contract when I offer her my coral beads instead, because they are dreadfully nice beads, my real, unpretended grandfather carved them for me himself ....

Molly Make-Believe Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915

How pleasant the little unpretended gatherings of book-societies, and the like; or those purely accidental meetings of

Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861

With unpretended humility and kindness he wept when the committee read to him the resolutions of Synod; overcome with varied emotions, his readiness at reply forsook him.

Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers 1846

And that home was my safeguard and preservative in that crisis of my life; its atmosphere of unpretended honor and serene virtue strengthened all my resolutions; it braced me for my struggles against the strongest passion which youth admits, and counteracted the evil vapors of that air in which Vivian's envenomed spirit breathed and moved.

The Caxtons — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

And that home was my safeguard and preservative in that crisis of my life; its atmosphere of unpretended honor and serene virtue strengthened all my resolutions; it braced me for my struggles against the strongest passion which youth admits, and counteracted the evil vapors of that air in which Vivian's envenomed spirit breathed and moved.

The Caxtons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838