Archer and Janey, in the course of their visits to Europe, had so
unflinchingly lived up to this principle, and met the friendly advances of their fellow-travellers with an air of such impenetrable reserve, that they had almost achieved the record of never having exchanged a word with a "foreigner" other than those employed in hotels and railway-stations.
Wragge has done it." He sat
unflinchingly at the window with a patience which Mrs.
"She is not what in common parlance is called a lady," said Angel,
unflinchingly, "for she is a cottager's daughter, as I am proud to say.
"I," he said, looking at me
unflinchingly, with his old sardonic grin - "I am looking for something to do."
He had grown used to the terrors of war and could face them
unflinchingly; but its pathos, someway, always brought the tears to his old, dim eyes.
Her eyes met it
unflinchingly, with the steely steadiness of the eyes of an eagle.
She breathes quickly and heavily, but she stands as
unflinchingly as ever he has seen her in the midst of her grandest company.
She met my eye as
unflinchingly as if her bosom had been steeled with conscious innocence.
I felt myself a match for the most ferocious bull in the herd, and I know, had such a bull charged upon me, that I should have met it
unflinchingly and quite coolly, and I know that I should have killed it.
We are gradually and laboriously learning the ill-manners of staring them
unflinchingly in the face--not because such conduct is agreeable to us, but because it is the custom of the country and they say the girls like it.
For years he has gone on
unflinchingly, filled with the most living faith and hope and charity, and I sometimes wonder whether they are any better now in his parish than they were under his predecessor, a man who smoked and drank beer from Monday morning to Saturday night, never did a stroke of work, and often kept the scanty congregation waiting on Sunday afternoons while he finished his postprandial nap.
She kept as far behind Denham as she could, and walked stiffly after him into a room blazing with unshaded lights, which fell upon a number of people, of different ages, sitting round a large dining-room table untidily strewn with food, and
unflinchingly lit up by incandescent gas.