| 单词 | unresisting |
| 例句 | “Where did you get this sword?” she whispered to Greyback as she pulled his wand out of his unresisting grip. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She can rub the smooth fur and feel the unresisting flesh underneath. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Will leapt over the last obstacle, a fallen tree trunk, and plunged the knife into the unresisting shimmer in the air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He had pulled her down onto the ground, she was utterly unresisting, he could do what he liked with her. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Frail, skittery, varying widely in their register and tone, they remain unresistingly conventional. Thomas Schütte: Faces & Figures – review 2012-09-29T23:05:27Z And Samuel Johnson, its chief tormenter, said that to discuss the play “were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation.” Fiasco Theater Company Rides Shakespeare to Success 2011-09-02T19:00:54Z “This, as Mr. Floyd lay on the ground handcuffed and unresisting?” the prosecutor said. Derek Chauvin pleads guilty to violating George Floyd’s civil rights 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z One had stuck his fingers in her unresisting mouth. The myth of Eurabia: how a far-right conspiracy theory went mainstream 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z The situation became much more serious when the government unleashed the Berkut, its elite special forces units, against the protesters, and "Winter on Fire" features considerable footage of troops beating unarmed and unresisting protesters. Dozens of cameras in 'Winter on Fire' zoom in on Ukraine revolution, moment by moment 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Why not swagger, after the way he’d humiliated my unresisting father? Mo Yan: “Bull.” 2012-11-19T05:00:00Z The haughty hidalgo, scorning to labour with his own hands, forced into his service the unresisting natives of the West. Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information 2012-04-22T02:00:09.320Z Conrad Tors, on his return from Rome, endeavored to resume his interrupted labors, but the temper of the people had changed, and the victims were no longer unresisting. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z But now, bound hand and foot, he was about to be led unresistingly, and in cool blood, to that fate, about which all men think, and but few appreciate, until the mortal hour. The Frontiersmen 2012-04-10T02:00:18.933Z The latter took the key from his unresisting hand. Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel 2012-04-06T02:00:29.933Z A numerous body led unresistingly to the slaughter. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z And Mary is not going to be an unresisting victim of a garrulous old professor. Insect Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:36.600Z Apparently, the first two allowed them to board unresistingly; and this no sooner took place than a savage slaughter of their helpless crews commenced. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z This happened at a time when the “peasantist” movement, the peaceful, unresisting stage in the history of what is commonly known as Nihilism, was at its height. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z She was mute and unresisting, and, as he was to remember, solemn. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z But she conquered herself and let them lead her, unresisting and as one blindfold, where they pleased. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z They do not surrender their brief joy of living in such utterly unresisting way as this little creature did. Insect Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:36.600Z The Countess's coach bore me away, unresisting; and Smith, whom I hated as I never hated even Ferguson, gave me the word. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z The place was filled with men; yet, reckless of all who might note, he bent his head low and kissed her unresisting. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z Quaking with mortal terror, Bemis and Slump in turn allowed him unresistingly to tie their arms behind them. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z In "I spy" half the players hide and the others seek; but they seek not an unresisting stationary object, but a keen, watchful retaliatory terror. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z He moved a pace forward, and laid a hand on her shoulder, holding her back from him, unresisting, while he looked down at her. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z The tribe were then disarmed, and endured unresistingly the licence and greed of Roman officials and Roman moneylenders, till goaded into madness, twelve years later, by the wrongs of their "warrior-queen," Boadicea. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Then he lay quite still, while the heron, standing at full height on the edge of the outraged nest, stabbed repeatedly and with slow deliberation at the unresisting mass of shadowy feathers. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z Joining her unresisting, take for your own the moment of escape which the singer in the blossoms freely claims. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z Clarence sprang up from the ground, where he had knelt to try the dead baby's pulse, and took her unresisting wrist anxiously in his. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z Quite unresisting she yielded him her mouth, looking at him intently with her bright brown eyes. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z From her unresisting descent into wells of pain, which proved unexpectedly shallow, the girl arose presently and quietly set to work arranging the room in its new capacity as hers only. The Crux 2012-01-12T03:00:12.630Z Seizing her roughly by the arm, he dragged her after him, not so much unresisting as rigid with horror, to the open fireplace. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z The evidence, then, leading me thus unresisting along, has led me to this main difference from our early treatment of veridical phantasms. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z As I spoke I slipped a five-pound note into a surprised but unresisting hand. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z The song was accompanied by a sound of dull blows, as though hands were beating and shaping up some large unresisting object. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z Even when the nurse pulls one of the unresisting mutton heads, and it emits a loud “Baa-a,” she stops only just for a second or two and then wails again. Out of Mulberry Street Stories of Tenement life in New York City 2011-12-28T03:00:42.950Z They took me down to the courtyard unresisting, where the prison van was standing in waiting. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z "I will tell her to expect you on Monday," said the old man, gently shaking Julienne's unresisting hand. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z As the Sheriff's arms closed round the unresisting form of his athletic bride, Philip was conscious of a gentle movement beside him. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Kill men unarmed and unresisting, and, gracious God, women too, disfigured, maimed, cut down, and trampled on by dragoons? The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z He seemed for the first time to realise the complete abandonment, the unresisting resignation to her fate, that was in her every word and tone. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z She was not bones nor muscles nor corsets, she was a mysterious embodiment of spirit and beauty, fluid yet shapely, unresisting yet real, gentle and terrible. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z I was still at a white heat of indignation, but to lay violent hands on this stodgy and unresisting person would have been like football without the fun. A Witch of the Hills, v. 1-2 2011-12-15T03:00:15.700Z With these words he took my arm kindly and led me inside, unresisting and as in a dream. The Heart of Denise and Other Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:15.733Z He strode towards her impetuously; gathered her into his arms pressing passionate kisses upon her unresisting mouth. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z Then, swinging her round into an eddy, he jumped off into the waist-deep water and led her unresistingly up against the bank. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z It was the old voice of ineffable tenderness, and it swept her unresistingly into his keeping. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z They could never again be ground beneath the heels of Spanish tyrants in the same unresisting if not uncomplaining fashion, which had been the regular order of things before the revolution. The History of Cuba, vol. 3 2011-11-28T03:00:26.510Z Mr. Walker strode among the women and laid hold of the unresisting girl. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z The soft brown-and-gold saree that harmonised with her complexion was ruthlessly unwound with unnecessary force as she stood weeping and unresisting in the hands of the wailing women. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z Tell me you requite my love—promise to be mine, to cherish and protect forever”—and again he took her unresisting hand in his and drew her near him. An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West 2011-11-17T03:00:31.330Z He went forward with outstretched hands, and took her unresisting ones, trying to see into her face. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z But remorse is an unresisting submission to the verdict of conscience and the consciousness of one's own unworthiness. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z The imperious young woman marched her unresisting companion straight off into the dining-room, without even affording her an opportunity to remove the stains of travel. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z He was perfectly certain of both those signals, and next moment he had folded her to him, and she lay less than unresisting in his arms. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z Without further delay, he gathered her unresisting form in his arms and tenderly bore her up to the house. An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West 2011-11-17T03:00:31.330Z Mr. Shei’s men would point out to him that her safety depended on an unresisting attitude on his part. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z More than ever she hated this unresisting piece of pulp; but strike again she could not; no, not with Evie's soul as it were a naked picture for her to set her foot upon. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z With very little assistance Mrs. Shallop dragged the unresisting forms of the five Arabs aft, after searching them in a very methodical fashion for concealed arms. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z Jibril, reading what he said was a post-mortem report, said Gaddafi was hauled unresisting from a "sewage pipe." Gaddafi killed in hometown, Libya eyes future 2011-10-21T01:06:10Z And, half pushing, half pulling, but all impelling, the doctor succeeded in hustling the post commander and the inert, unresisting subaltern within the parlor. A Trooper Galahad 2011-10-12T02:00:53.977Z They also adopted every expedient to inflame the public mind, and to make it accessory to their design of reducing the king to unresisting helplessness. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z Then taking the hat from the unresisting boy's head, threw it far out in the channel, afterward giving the little craft a shove which sent her a long distance from the shore. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z This condition is gradually replaced by an opposite state, the pulse becoming large, soft, and bounding, though very unresisting, and giving a sphygmographic trace which exhibits marked dicrotism. Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it 2011-10-03T02:00:31.460Z She lay against him, unresisting, her sweet face turned up to his, soul meeting soul at last in the ecstasy of a first kiss. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z I peeled the scarlet paper and the silvery wrappings from the bars of chocolate, and pushed a fragment into his unresisting mouth. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z At all events, he drew her to his breast and kissed those red lips over and over again, she blushing, but unresisting as before. Annie o' the Banks o' Dee 2011-09-12T02:00:26.230Z "Come, Marjory," she said, as she grasped the faint hand of the almost unresisting girl. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z With an awkward movement he took hold of her arm, and, unresisting, she allowed herself to be hurried along the broad sanded path, and down the steep, stony way into the deserted square. The Red Cross Barge 2011-09-05T02:00:20.603Z She entered with a certain hesitation, and seeing Matheson’s occupation, advanced with greater assurance and took the razor from his unresisting hand. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z For a while Robert prodded unsuccessfully; wherever he drove his rod in, after a few feet of solid earth it sank suddenly into the unresisting depths of an uncollapsed grave. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z Caryll took her in his arms, unresisting, and hugged her very close. The Tigress 2011-08-30T02:00:39.657Z Putting both her hands on Jane's unresisting shoulders, Mrs. Maule gently pushed her friend down into a low chair, and then knelt down by her. Jane Oglander 2011-08-30T02:00:38.717Z Margaret, however, was not one of those women who sink under misfortune—who unresistingly yield to the pressure of calamity. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX 2011-08-27T02:00:23.817Z IT is wonderful how the wave of a great storm carries us unresisting on its crest. Salome 2011-08-20T02:00:12.970Z The dogs flew at the throats of the Indians, and strangled or tore them in pieces; whilst the Spaniards, with the eagerness of hunters, pursued and mowed down the unresisting fugitives. History of the Buccaneers of America 2011-08-19T02:00:13.187Z He caught her arm, and dragged her up from her seat; and she came with him unresistingly out of the box into the corridor: he could feel her whole frame tremble. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z A very nice appeal after the massacre of Fort Pillow, especially when coming from a man who has spent the previous two years of his life in destroying unresisting merchantmen. An Englishman's View of the Battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge An Account of the Naval Engagement in the British Channel, on Sunday June 19th, 1864 2011-08-08T02:00:19.967Z The thread followed it; when his quick movement drew the thread to full length, the fabric was jerked out of Faith's unresisting hands. The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z The whole island submitted quietly to their sway, and the unresisting inhabitants toiled, and died, and wasted away under the withering hand of oppression. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z Her spirit, in its "mildness, sweetness, blessedness," seemed as flexible and unresisting as the tender Vasanta creeper. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:09.667Z The handcuffs were slipped on the gardener’s wrists and he was led away unresistingly, followed by his weeping wife and a crowd of the villagers. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z But even these loving arms, which had once rescued him from Correntian's iron grip, could not save him now; that iron hand tore him from them and led him away--an unresisting prey. The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z His was the most unresisting, most echolike mind I have ever known. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z She gently tried to loose his clenched fingers, which gradually yielded till the open hand lay soft and unresisting in her own. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z There was something in the suddenness of this unresisting obedience that seemed to startle her. The Vicar of Wrexhill 2011-07-13T02:00:20.177Z "Here," said I, thrusting the rest of the tags into Henry's limp and unresisting hand. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z She had burrowed down in the unresisting sand almost as deep as some meteoric stone might have done. A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z In another moment the unresisting form was drawn to the edge of the yawning black-mouthed pit, which, so wondrous straight and narrow, had been driven deeply into the bowels of the earth. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z "What is it, father?" and little Elsie pressed up to his side and took the despatch from his unresisting fingers. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z And here, oh, best of all, the frailties of the unresisting tempted are folded away beneath the shroud from the humiliating glances of pity—from the cold eyes of pride. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z He folded her, unresisting, in both his arms, covering her face with kisses, ardent, violent kisses that bruised and hurt her tender flesh but which she still sought and hungered for, insatiable. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z They were, no doubt, scouts of the Uhlan patrol, bent upon completing the work of massacre and destruction that the guns had begun against the unresisting village. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z And here the hellish villain spurned the unresisting form of his prostrate foe. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z It was impossible not to love the man, and whatever liking and admiration Robert Campbell had to give, he gave unresistingly that night to James Rathey. A Reconstructed Marriage 2011-06-23T02:00:23.143Z Kindness for the prince, to whose hand she may aspire, flows so spontaneously, her tender heart obeys its impulses so unresistingly, that both father and brother are afraid: both give her warning harshly and directly. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z At Cirencester, having entered the town by force, they slew all the men who opposed them, took the unresisting inhabitants prisoners, and pillaged the town. The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z When he had obtained a proper command of himself, he returned to his seat, and taking the unresisting hand of Mercedes, he replied to her extraordinary proposal. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z He mutely acquiesced while the manacles were slipped over his unresisting hands. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z In another instant, Grip has pounced upon the luckless organ-grinder, and dragged him into the centre of the room, where he crouches at Alan’s feet, the very image of terrified misery, limp and unresisting. Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z Energetic purposeful crowds buffeted her and unresisting she went with the current and feebly home to where she knew Massingale at least would be waiting for her. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z She drew the astonished Margaret's hand within her arm, gave a majestic bow to the flushed chevalier, and led the unresisting girl out of the drawing-room to her own luxurious apartments. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z Then she returned quietly, took off her hat and shawl, and taking the unresisting hand of her brother, led him back to his former seat by the fire. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z He submitted, vacantly staring and unresistingly, to being placed in the position proper for the apparatus. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z I led him unresisting into the back room; it was my turn to place some one in the rocking-chair. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z He leaned towards her and the girl's hand remained unresistingly in his. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z In her struggle to fill the giant's robe, she has run unresistingly in the ruts of the age. Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 2011-05-30T02:00:17.247Z Then he and the pilots got a beam and rammed it into the unresisting blockade. Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border 2011-05-26T02:00:20.467Z He peremptorily took it from her unresisting hand, raised the cover, and saw some tempting slices of hot roast beef, and part of a cauliflower. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z The dilapidated, weather-scarred door gave way unresistingly to him and his bedlam cry as though it had boded this unholy visitation. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z An unresisting working class would soon find itself on a rice diet. The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons 2011-05-07T02:00:25.193Z Thus, helpless and unresisting, she was forced into the settlement again, bound like a criminal. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z H. G. Wells, in his War of the Worlds, attributed intelligence to monsters—half-cuttlefish and half-anemone,—and the human form to their helpless, unresisting prey. Are the Planets Inhabited? 2011-04-24T02:00:07.733Z "Come," he said; "we must rest," and he led her unresisting to the side of the road. The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z After a short interval a figure, closely veiled, in coarse attire, was conducted out, and unresistingly placed in the litter. Jovinian A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome 2011-04-21T02:00:52.107Z Wolves are fierce, bloody, and ravenous beasts; but lambs are mild, inoffensive, and unresisting, having no means of relief but by flight. War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ 2011-04-18T02:00:09.590Z To remain an unresisting victim to the torture would only invite disaster. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z "Nay, but did you not love me then?" he said, tenderly taking her hand and drawing her unresistingly to his heart. Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-04-11T02:00:12.290Z He took her face between his hands, he bent to kiss her unresisting lips; then suddenly he checked himself. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z Only a coward will permit himself to be slaughtered unresisting. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z They had all just been rubbed the wrong way by some one else—and you were an unresisting object to fire away at in their turn. Peggy Parsons a Hampton Freshman 2011-04-01T02:00:36.933Z Once inside the ruin, he proceeded to bind his unresisting victim with cords, which he had taken in along with him. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Was he growing morbid, he wondered, bitterly but unresistingly, that her face should suddenly float before his eyes. Mysterious Mr. Sabin 2011-03-24T02:00:10.087Z And Mrs. Trevannion, as pale almost as her daughter, drew the sheet of note-paper from the girl's unresisting hands, while her husband held out to her his own letter. Uncanny Tales 2011-03-22T02:00:16.307Z “They were all as unresisting as if he were helping them into a street car instead of into eternity,” Shepherd reported. City Room: Triangle Fire: A Half-Hour of Horror 2011-03-21T11:30:44Z Not vouchsafing him another word or look, she takes her sister's unresisting arm, and leads her away. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z “If it were her fingers I held thus to my lips—thus unresisting—then might I believe there was bliss upon earth!” The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z She followed unresistingly; her gentle nature was submissive even in affliction. Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 2011-03-13T03:00:21.980Z Joseph could restrain himself no longer, but rushed forward and stooping down, took her unresisting hand. Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife 2011-03-10T03:00:49.120Z He took her unresisting hand and kissed it softly. Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z The people preserved a sullen and unresisting silence. Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z He took her hand and drew her, unresisting, toward himself; her head drooped upon his shoulder. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z So great was his respect, for all persons, whom he thought superior to himself, that for some time he bore the chastisement—unresistingly permitting the minister to proceed in the execution of his fancied duty. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z He beat the unresisting fluid with his hands—he did not know how to swim. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z She says nothing, only lies on his breast, silently, unresistingly. Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso 2011-02-27T03:00:30.780Z Bones, of course, have no feeling, used to think Ernest, watching with a kind of fascination each motion of Miss Chatterwits' hand, as she thrust half a dozen long pins into the unresisting cushion. Miss Theodora A West End Story 2011-02-26T03:00:48.940Z Cunning savages! they know that British troops will never kill unresisting men, much less the miserable tillers of the ground, the poor women of Kaffirland, and they imagine we are yet to be imposed upon. The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland 2011-02-19T03:01:12.480Z Indeed General Dumerbion was so deeply impressed by the sagacity and military science displayed by his brigadier-general, that he unresistingly surrendered himself to the guidance of the mind of Napoleon. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z As he hurried to the door, he paused for a moment over the motionless heap of blood and rags on the floor, coolly thrusting his knife again and again into the unresisting flesh. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z Dr. Fabian took his pupil's hand between his own, the young man submitting unresistingly. Under a Charm, Vol. I (of III) A Novel 2011-02-14T03:00:34.700Z But her voice trembled, and Ben, with a lover's perception, taking courage from these signs, laid his hand gently on hers and drew the tell-tale locket from her unresisting grasp. Miss Theodora A West End Story 2011-02-26T03:00:48.940Z Perhaps he understands this, and therefore fails to realize the rapture he should know at having her so unresistingly within his arms. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z My companions, overcome with astonishment, yielded unresistingly to my proposal, and, giving the Jehu the necessary orders, we were driven back in the direction of the city. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z What would now be the fate of such unresisting and confiding angels? Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z He pulled the corpse away from the unresisting Telt and heaved it across his shoulders. Sense of Obligation 2011-02-09T03:00:52.337Z The officer commanding that detachment has thought proper to invite his majesty's subjects, not merely to a quiet and unresisting submission, but insults them with a call to seek voluntarily the protection of his government. The Niagara River 2011-02-08T03:00:09.703Z Cyril is not, and allows himself to be pushed unresistingly in the direction of the carriage. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z The clasped hands and slightly bent-down head gave a character of patient, unresisting meaning to his figure, which the few words he dropped from time to time seemed to confirm. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z He held closely the beautiful, cold hand which as before lay unresisting in his, but did not return its pressure. A Hero of the Pen 2011-02-04T03:00:19.217Z He detained her hand in his, and Jessie left it unresistingly there. Partners A Novel. 2011-02-02T03:00:20.690Z Her silence gave me my answer, and I took her unresisting body into my arms and kissed her to distraction. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z Her hand slid unresistingly to her side as he released it. No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z To the young man it seemed as if a small, soft hand had been laid upon his arm and had drawn him along, all unresisting. The Sign of Flame 2011-01-27T03:00:43.087Z Her head sunk unresisting, upon his shoulder, but two heavy tears rolled slowly from her eyes down upon his hand. A Hero of the Pen 2011-02-04T03:00:19.217Z His assailant was at his mercy now and the heat and anger of combat ebbed from his veins as he looked down at the Mexican’s unresisting figure. The Delafield Affair 2011-01-19T03:00:21.497Z James’s denatured people are only the equivalent in fiction of those egg-faced, black-haired ladies, who sit and sit, in the Japanese colour-prints, the unresisting stuff for an arrangement of blacks…. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z Her head fell a little back, her lips seemed to meet his freely, unresistingly. The Golden Web 2011-01-15T03:00:38.007Z His other arm soon found itself resting round her unresisting neck. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z Their homes and goods have been destroyed, their houses forcibly entered, the helpless and unresisting inmates murdered, the fleeing overtaken and cut down in cold blood by the savage soldiery of the North.... The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z A groove was worn into his brain, a groove into which all thoughts fell unresistingly. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Intimidated and unresisting as she was, she did not find the courage to justify what was holiest to her even in her own eyes. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z When it compares the power of God, on the one hand, with the misery of man, on the other, and submits unresistingly to the will of God, humility is the fruit. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Had he not already done so when he unresistingly obeyed her command? The Breaking of the Storm, Vol. I. 2010-12-20T17:12:22.067Z The fact is that France is towed unresistingly by Paris, and that we often have to say "the French," when in reality we only mean "the Parisians." English Pharisees and French Crocodiles and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters 2010-12-20T17:12:04.833Z At length, the first violence of his feelings was exhausted, and he suffered me to lead him, unresistingly, to the manse, where we were received with the greatest kindness and sympathy by the sorrowing family. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 Tom slammed down the lid of the case, and pushed the old gentleman unresistingly back into an easy-chair. Lady Maude's Mania The tender, unresisting infant, the delicate girl, the mature woman, alike suffer from these evil influences; some fall victims to them, others suffer during life. Dress as a Fine Art With Suggestions on Children's Dress It seizes the unresisting victim by the throat, and its fatal work is quickly accomplished. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands He suddenly held her to him, and she met his lips unresistingly. The Hillman Tokeah, usually so abstemious, had probably upon this festive occasion overstepped the bounds of sobriety, and he fell unresisting into the hands of his foe. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 It was the deed rather than the word that he remembered—the fact that he had held a beautiful and eventually unresisting woman in his arms that occupied his attention on his way home. Manslaughter He took the bunch of heavy keys from the unresisting fingers, and the jailer hastened indoors. The Man from Jericho But when I turned towards the altar and took her by the hand, she followed me unresisting. The Unknown Sea But if expressive movements occur, the motor pathways must be particularly unresisting in order to take up the overflow of psychophysic energy. Clever Hans (The horse of Mr. Von Osten): A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology And she felt this herself, for unresistingly she, who had hitherto treated me as a child, submitted to my guidance. The Wish A Novel And what right have you to punish her?—you, who call yourselves men, to exert your strength and power against one poor, feeble, unresisting female! The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 Rodolph, utterly exhausted, had no longer power to sustain himself; his limbs sunk from under him, and he slid unresistingly down the stone steps. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 On, and still on, up, further up the mountain, through thick pine forests and gigantic clumps of rock the demon guide led his unresisting prey. Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I Kindness for the Prince, to whose hand she may aspire, flows so spontaneously, her tender heart obeys its impulses so unresistingly, that both father and brother are afraid; both give her warning harshly and directly. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 His dominant ideas were horror of bloodshed and the determination to accept unresistingly all, even unjust, decrees of the worldly authorities. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" Thus when they came back to town the riot continued; and Victoria, breasting the London tide, dragged him unresisting in her rear. A Bed of Roses They threw him, helpless and unresisting, into the vehicle. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 Still, she told herself, she could not sit there forever, an unresisting morsel for the first meat-eater to come along. The Return of Tharn The child pushed aside the hanging blossoms and drew Mark, still dazed and unresisting, after her. The Little Schoolmaster Mark A Spiritual Romance Doctor Askew, meanwhile, holding the pencil between his teeth, had lifted Susan's unresisting shoulders—too roughly, I thought—from the bed. The Book of Susan A Novel All conspired against him, the night, the fancied scents of Araby, the unresisting woman in his arms who yielded him her lips with the passivity of weariness. A Bed of Roses He clasped her in his strong arms and fiercely kissed her unresisting lips. By Right of Conquest A Novel In horrified anguish she knelt before the basket out of which the skull grinned back at her, and unresistingly did she give herself up to the tones which poured forth from the organ. Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle The swing of Imrie's hope had reached its amplitude in those brief moments he had held her unresisting in his arms. Thirty She had relaxed utterly when she came, to waver unresistingly down into the cool abyss of her despair. Ewing\\'s Lady To shoot down miserable unresisting animals in cold blood, one after another, could not be otherwise. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising It was too much like cattle-slaying, falling upon these unresisting people, who had no fight in them. The King's Assegai A Matabili Story “Hush, mother!” said Hazel sternly; and, kneeling down, she drew the boy’s unresisting head upon her shoulder, and held it there, smoothing his hair the while. The New Mistress A Tale I am afraid, somehow, that the captain’s arm often wandered to the maid’s waist; sometimes even he took a kiss quite unresistingly from Jacoba’s fresh lips and soft cheek. Tales of South Africa It was hard to be butchered unresisting, but any resistance would certainly involve the massacre of the girls as well. The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising After it is over we will return to rule an unresisting planet. Cube Root of Conquest Generator after generator burned out, the defensive screen collapsed, and the red converter beam attacked voraciously the unresisting metal of those prodigious walls. Triplanetary The unresisting head wagged sedately to and fro. Stepsons of Light As soon as he had fairly regained his feet, he reared to his full height, came down upon the bear's unresisting form, and trampled madly for several seconds. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life He had submitted to everything unresistingly, motionless and silent, only at first he had objected to the crown; then he said gently, "Be it so--my crown of thorns." The Scarlet Banner "I'll not leave you," said he, in a voice scarce louder than a whisper: "there's my hand upon it," and he wrung in his strong grasp the unresisting fingers of the old man. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago "Out or I'll——" And in his blind rage the officer grasped the unresisting soldier by the throat and hurled him through the doorway whence he came. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade He saw the man catch her up in his arms, where she lay limp and unresisting, and with this burden step from the stage to the boat and disappear from sight beneath the coaming. The Destroying Angel Throwing it away, he drew his sword and struck Palamides six great strokes upon the helm, while the Saracen stood unresisting, and wondering at the folly and madness of his foe. Historic Tales, Vol 14 (of 15) The Romance of Reality In the same unresisting, unmoved silence he now, like a walking corpse, crossed with slow, slow steps the space,--possibly three hundred feet,--which separated him from Belisarius. The Scarlet Banner La Colombi�re, being of a mild and feeble nature, was hurried away unresistingly into this ardent vortex of passion and fanaticism. Priests, Women, and Families The unresisting acquiescence of children in never-ending bestowal of parental bounty offers no hint of the possibility of future strife. Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home It was very strange, how he seemed to draw the intelligence of the eye into his and hold it unresisting. Rose MacLeod Elijah was half-conscious of a longing which he could not express, half-conscious that every attempt to gratify it was repulsed by an intangible atmosphere which seemed transparent and unresisting, yet was dense and impenetrable. The Vision of Elijah Berl The girl drank unresistingly and then lay back again on the pillows. The Motor Girls on the Coast or, The Waif From the Sea He was able to pour a few drops of brandy down her throat, to chafe the unresisting hands, to bathe the cold forehead with some hope of affording relief. A Life Sentence A Novel Usselex had led her to a seat and taken her unresisting hand in his. Eden An Episode Did they think now that they would find us passive and unresisting? Astounding Stories, June, 1931 The disfranchised conscience in a smooth, unresisting world, becomes an enchaining conversation, an all-narrating fable. Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. The Major, muttering an inarticulate denial, hastily retreated, and from that moment surrendered himself to his fate an unresisting victim. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 She felt as if she had killed an unresisting, loving creature, as a sacrifice for her fault. Cecilia A Story of Modern Rome "Thank God!" screamed a woman who was fighting her way through the crowd toward Tom's post, her clothing nearly torn from her; and at the words she sagged to the deck, inert, unresisting. Bring Me His Ears Again they stood; he clasping her unresisting form, while the touch of her flowing hair intoxicated him, and the gentle rise and fall of her bosom drove all thought wild within him. In the Brooding Wild It was clear to every eye that Miss Walladmor was not one of those persons who surrender themselves unresisting victims to dejection, and sink without a struggle into premature valetudinarians. Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. She gave him her hands unresistingly, and he laid his hot forehead against them for an instant. Marguerite De Roberval A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier He led her, dumb and unresisting, to a chair, and stood by her side. A Monk of Cruta She drew him in and he went unresistingly, glad to yield to her gentle tyranny. Doubloons—and the Girl She was close to him, but he dared not look up until she took his unresisting hand in hers and held it tenderly. Under False Pretences A Novel Steering his captive across the pavement to the curb, he hailed the first passing taxicab and bundled the unresisting youth inside. The Deaves Affair That instant she was clasped helpless and unresisting in his arms, and her lips were giving his back kiss for kiss. The Angel of the Revolution A Tale of the Coming Terror But Anna, dear Anna,"—and then he took her unresisting hand,—"you shall not be asked for more now. Lady Anna She had drawn me back to her, my mind blacked out and unresisting. Where the World is Quiet And so, unresisting, I was borne along in the swift current of humanity that was swept down the street, like the water in a mill-race, to turn the wheels of workshop and factory. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself She took from Sally's unwilling but unresisting hand the letter which Mrs. Perce had written, pulled it from the open envelope, read it, and looked again at Sally. Coquette In her soul a battle had been waged, and the struggle had left her passive and unresisting; she was waiting. The Spectacle Man A Story of the Missing Bridge Mr. R. C. Taylor, of Philadelphia, states that this animal, when trapped, is silent, subdued, and unresisting. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. Then she took the reins from McDonald's unresisting hands and pulled. Polly's Senior Year at Boarding School The Indian, instinctively taken aback, halted, and Donald reached over and drew the gun out of the unresisting hand, while a roar of laughter went up. The Wilderness Trail Already the water was flowing to the sea, and she could imagine the coagulated masses vaguely swirling beneath her, borne unresisting upon the outgoing tide. Coquette "We may all perish," she said, "but let us, at least, perish like sovereigns, and not wait to be strangled unresistingly upon the very floor of our apartments." Maria Antoinette Makers of History For, in leaning back, the speaker had come against an unresisting body. His Lordship's Leopard A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts He gave me his hand; it was wet, and mine was reddened; he led me unresisting. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) And that he now is safely in London is because at Patras we rescued him from a boatman who had placed him unresisting on a steamer for Australia. With the French in France and Salonika “I shall make you a good husband,” he added, coming a little nearer to her, sinking on one knee by her side, and taking her cold, unresisting hands into his. The Moving Finger "Sire," said the Abbé Edgeworth, "submit unresistingly to this fresh outrage, as the last resemblance to the Savior who is about to recompense your sufferings." Maria Antoinette Makers of History “I don’t know you personally, do I?” continued Gideon, examining his unresisting prisoner. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) But the band struck up, and I swept the unresisting Camilla towards the set. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) With the words, she took the paper and tobacco from his unresisting hands; and with a facility that, in Desborough’s eyes, seemed magical, rolled and presented him a cigarette. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) Did she lose her good looks, or her amiable unresisting submission to his wishes, whatever they were, she would also lose her hold upon his affections. Callista : a Tale of the Third Century But since that dun morning when she had given him the mignonette, and he had drawn her unresisting body to the barrier of his prison door, she had visited him no more. The Bondboy And his hand was unresisting as the strong, slender fingers about his wrist drew it back.... Astounding Stories, May, 1931 I tucked his arm under mine, possessed myself of the valise, and walked him off unresisting. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) She took his arm and drew him, unresisting, yet uncomprehending, to the door. Carmen Ariza Smith said a dirty word and pushed himself away from the screamer unit to glower at an unresisting wall. Hanging by a Thread Between the two, they had strapped her unresisting on the board. Orphans of the Storm The majestic animal suffered himself to be led along, an unresisting prey, till he arrived at the spot which was destined for the theatre of his persecutions. The History of Sandford and Merton When I lifted him from his kneeling position, he obeyed my movement like a tired child, and again sat on the low pallet, in a state of motionless and unresisting torpor. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 The woman, still retaining Carmen’s hand, went directly to a waiting automobile and pushed the unresisting girl through the open door. Carmen Ariza Vaguely he knew that love was already promised by the unresisting body in his arms, but there was no thought of immediately pressing his suit. Claire The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author The thief took it from his trembling but unresisting hand, unfurled it, turned it over, held it up close to his eyes and suddenly laughed: “Well, you certainly are easy––counterfeit!” Officer 666 He led her, compelled against her will, unresisting to a sofa. East of the Shadows I took Oakley’s arm, and led him unresistingly away. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 Then, like a tiger pouncing upon a fawn, he seized the unresisting girl in his arms and staggered back to his chair. Carmen Ariza When he came into the room he took her at once, passive and unresisting, into his arms. Marion Fay He would not kill an unresisting man, even Sorenson, his worst enemy. In the Shadow of the Hills He knelt swiftly, thrust the gag back into position with ungentle paw, kicked the unresisting form in the side to show his displeasure, and rose. Slaves of Mercury He admitted this while he walked unresistingly between two of the giants. Two Thousand Miles Below Taking her by the hand he led her, unresisting, back to her chair. Carmen Ariza I find that, examined separately, they do not indicate any settled sinfulness; but taken together they indicate a variable temper, a perfectly untrained nature, and a weak, unresisting will. An Orkney Maid I unresistingly permitted them to wind their arms about my neck. Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories Smythe grabbed her, with an arm around her waist, and led her, unresisting and dumb, to a near rock, where he seated her gently, and stood watching 207 her. The Heart of Thunder Mountain She would not remain silent and unresisting, shut in a room while a cold-blooded scoundrel bargained to deliver her for a price like a ewe out of his flock. The Flockmaster of Poison Creek In quick penitence and humility he stretched out his arm and drew her unresisting to him. Carmen Ariza He moved towards her again with something subtly seductive in his manner, and his arms closed about her unresisting form in a caress she was powerless to deny. The Twins of Suffering Creek I carried her, unresisting, trustful, in my arms, while Mercer bore a huge basin of water, in which her head was submerged, so that she might not suffer. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 Blood-tests would show; and he scraped the lobe of the ear of the unresisting, indifferent old man, and took a drop of thin pink fluid on a bit of glass. In a Little Town She led her unresistingly from the room, across the hall, to a small reception-room, when, closing the door to keep out intruders, she turned and laid both her trembling hands upon the girl's shoulders. The Masked Bridal Was anything wanting to perfect him in the unresisting gentleness of the dove? Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose He was no longer a prey to a weak, unresisting submission, the grief of a tortured gentle heart. The Twins of Suffering Creek Billy stepped to Rita's side, and taking her unresisting hand hastily sought her pulse. A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties In this attitude of unquestioning, unresisting submission, the Holy Spirit finds a swift and easy channel through us. The Golden Fountain or, The Soul's Love for God. Being some Thoughts and Confessions of One of His Lovers The flight of the Rowanmore appeared to deprive her of the consideration due to an unresisting vessel under cruiser warfare. The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources Dr. F. suggests, that the electric shock might weaken the tænia, so as to cause it to let go its hold, and thus be unresistingly extracted. North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 The fingers of his gun hand grew suddenly nerveless; the weapon dropped unresistingly from his paralyzed hand. Pirates of the Gorm She was meek and unresisting, to the point of weakness. A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties Once more he took her in his arms unresisting. People of Position In the whole of this transaction the Moravians were passive and unresisting. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State He drew her toward him, unresisting, their gaze still on each other. The Flying Mercury Struggle as he might, dash his fist as hard as he could against the unresisting blank face, he could not loose that grip. Pirates of the Gorm Had the creature turned, it might have been less difficult; but the utter revulsion of driving steel into unsuspecting and unresisting flesh was more than she could master. Sunlight Patch When Pete’s hand had reached the unresisting beast’s neck, he began to feel a qualm of misgiving. The Backwoodsmen The boy choked, and Father Claude drew him, unresisting, outside the hut. The Road to Frontenac The frightened sambur closed up, instead of scattering, and the impetus of the buffalo presently spent itself upon the unresisting mass. In the Morning of Time Here goes then,” answered Mr. Seth gently lifting Luna—wholly unresisting now and placidly smiling—to the place desired while Dolly swiftly sprang after. Dorothy's House Party You literally balanced yourself before my eyes, you literally taunted me with words which were a challenge of unresisting sweetness, you literally drew me, and when I came, you flew into a rage. Sunlight Patch He dragged the unresisting girl to the rail. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China He placed his hand on the door knob, turned it, and to his surprise and satisfaction the door opened unresistingly. Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer Now unresisting Thebes, “Yields to a boy unarm'd; who never joys “In armies, steeds, nor swords;—but more in locks “With myrrh moist-dropping, garlands soft, and robes “Of various teints, with gold and purple gay. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II Let us go;” and linking his strong arm within the weak one of the man, scarce older yet so much frailer than he, he walked quietly away, the fanatic unresisting and obedient. Dorothy's House Party All were ready; even the wounded, those at least who were able to stand, made ready to accompany us, determined to die fighting, rather than be unresistingly butchered. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Absolutely unresisting, he was drawn down to the impassive eyes and gaping beak of his captor. Kings in Exile But this was long-term, dragging toil—a steady pushing at a soggy, unresisting, yet heavy mass. The Weakling It was rather a reckless proceeding, perhaps; but Mattie was too down and miserable to argue it out, so she walked beside Sir Harry in a perfectly unresisting manner. Not Like Other Girls Tittering and leering, he seized the girl by the arm, and led her, unresisting, to the cranny that was the door of the cave. Heart of the Blue Ridge She was sobbing now, but her head was resting on his shoulder, and as he kissed her closed eyes and unresisting lips, a boat's sharp whistle broke the sacred spell. Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast Bleeding, hideously mangled, but still, apparently, full of fighting vigor, he disengaged himself from the unresisting mass and looked around him proudly. Kings in Exile Jane, however, had so powerful an influence over him, that she often, by her persuasive skill, averted the storm which was about to descend upon her meek and unresisting parent. Madame Roland, Makers of History The position of the Earth’s axis as she speeds along in her orbit through the unresisting ether remains unchanged, and her rapid rotation has the effect of increasing its stability. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Fandor's hand slid to Elizabeth's shoulder; he leaned towards the unresisting girl, and with closed eyes, their lips met in a long kiss—a kiss all ecstasy.... Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas Leaving the others to decide, he took Warren's Winchester from his unresisting hand, and began watching for the approach of the Sioux, who he was certain were following the trail through the snow. The Young Ranchers or, Fighting the Sioux That splash had come to him to mean just food, unresisting victims, and his tentacles were instantly alert to seize whatever should come within reach. Kings in Exile He appeared to have suddenly abdicated his position on the objective positive side of life and to have become a mere passive instrument of the hour, subjective and unresisting. Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker “Let me read it, governor,” said Speed, and took the blue paper from Byram’s unresisting, stubby fingers. The Maids of Paradise For ransom and release, she gave her lips unresistingly, and he uncaged her. The Scarlet Feather But there was that within him which forbade a quiet and unresisting resignation to his discomfiture and humiliation. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 The puma, badly torn, now crouched snarling upon his unresisting body. Kings in Exile He took one quick passionate step towards her, seizing her hands, and drawing her unresistingly towards him. The New Tenant Should he remain unresisting and without influence on the decision of his own destiny? Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange The Texan knew how to handle tying gear, as all Texans do, and in a trice the unresisting cochero was dragged from his seat and bound, Ixion-like, to one of the carriage wheels. The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley “Rise, lovely Aurore!” said I, taking her unresisting hand, and leading her to a seat. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West The stump shrank instantly back into the shell; and the shell became again the unresisting plaything of the tentacles, which presently, as if realizing that it had no more power to retaliate, flung it aside. Kings in Exile Still he would neither swallow it nor close his jaws upon it, but unresistingly suffered it to be jerked out of his mouth again. The Voyage of the Aurora Israel, broken up into unresisting fragments, began his two thousand years' journey through the desert of time, despoiled of all possessions except his Law and his family. Jewish Literature and Other Essays To assist the perfect insect, the grub first gnaws the under side of the bark, leaving a thin screen of cuticle untouched, and then sinks in the wood a perpendicular well, blocked with unresisting sawdust. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles This time he followed me unresistingly—as he had nothing more to lay. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West With a cough the brute fell over, limp and unresisting as a half-filled bran sack. Kings in Exile "And I shall have the satisfaction of marrying a second time the loveliest girl in the world," laughed Don Carlos happily, as he drew her unresisting into his arms again. Bandit Love She never knew how it was she did not shriek aloud, but instead managed to remain perfectly quiescent, unresisting. Juggernaut At first, delighted with the avowal he had heard, he took her, unresisting, in his arms. A Royal Prisoner His arms were around her and he drew her to him unresisting till for an instant her lips touched his forehead and his face was buried in her bosom. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) Though fully aware of the efficacy and finality of that bite, the fox set his teeth, again and again, with curious deliberation of movement, into the limp and unresisting form. Kings in Exile Yet she let him lead her, unresisting, into the other room, where Quinton Edge still stood motionless and looked upon the floor. The Doomsman Then, with a yell of frantic pleasure, he leaped towards his unresisting victim, and prepared to lead him to the stake. The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 But at this point something checked his despicable impulse—perhaps the purity of her face, or merely its unresisting stillness. Captain Desmond, V.C. Therefore, stunned by this new knowledge, he stood humble and unresisting. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life Never in my life could I hurt an unresisting man, so I let him fall, and he lay like a log of wood. The Birthright He stepped to Dom Gillian's chair, and, putting his hands under the armpits of the old man, lifted him unresisting to his feet. The Doomsman “It is, however, urgent to consider whether you wish to be taken unresisting in the morning.” A Victor of Salamis Burning with the desire of revenge, and infuriated by their recent bereavement of all they held most dear, they fell upon the almost unresisting Indians and massacred them to the last man. The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France The foreign bacteria were already at work on totally unresisting tissue. The Last Evolution Now, his silky ears were grasped, firmly, confidently; and unresisting, he allowed himself to be couched in the crook of a soft arm. The Orchard of Tears And, straightway took her, unresisting, in his arms.... In Her Own Right The New Testament has been interpreted as justifying implicit obedience to "the powers that be," even when they turn the Kaiser into a military despot and his people into unresisting and deluded slaves. A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions To save the blanket from the blood which was soiling it, he tore it from the limp, unresisting shoulders, and rubbed it in the dirt to obliterate the stain. 'Me--Smith' The least soft of Shakespeare's critics calls it "unresisting imbecility." William Shakespeare The donkey, recovering from the effect of the shock, started off at headlong speed, dragging my unresisting body after him. Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography But with the same Indian stoicism that marked the Aztec, as it did the less cultivated Algonquin and Sioux, the boy went, unresistingly, to meet his fate. Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times But he could secure no better terms, than that the unresisting should be spared, the buildings protected from fire, and the captives from torture. Ancient States and Empires This life is not like the life of nature, a blind, non-conscious principle, involuntarily working out its ideal in unresisting obedience to the law of its being. Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy He hardly knew how the inspiration had come to him, but suddenly he clasped her in his arms, and she, all unresisting, smiled into his eyes. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands And already raged The Sultan o'er the unresisting town. Turandot, Princess of China A Chinoiserie in Three Acts He brought her unresisting across the room, then dragged aside the heavy yellow curtains which had been drawn before the central window. Studies in love and in terror My arms sunk through the unresisting mass that was turning me to ice. Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories I bore it all unresistingly—likewise a scrubbing with a rough towel. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... Hegelians have anointed, so to speak, the entrance with various considerations which, stated in an abstract form, are so plausible as to slide us unresistingly and almost unwittingly through the fatal arch. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Those he praised were the poor and the meek and the unresisting and the persecuted—those who were cut off from the hopes of the world. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance She held his wrist—that bony, flat wrist, which had had its own tale to tell to the examining physician—protruding from the shabby coat-sleeve, and led him, he nearly unresisting, back to the door. A Sheaf of Corn He held out his arms, he clasped her to his breast, where she rested unresistingly, infinitely happy. Vixen, Volume III. He folds her quickly, unresisting, to his breast. Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier Lycidas ventured to seat himself beside the young maiden, take one of her unresisting hands and press it first to his heart, then to his lips—for he read consent in the silence of Zarah. Hebrew Heroes A Tale Founded on Jewish History She held out her hand, and took in hers his own unresisting fingers. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time As he spoke he pushed the picture gently into my unresisting fingers and closed them over it. Marjorie Will it slowly gather itself up for victorious onset? or will it sink unresisting into darkness and the grave? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 He held her so in a close, restrictive pressure, against which she soon ceased to struggle, but lay there still and unresisting. A Beautiful Alien Slowly, slowly she opened the unresisting door, and her expression changed from expectancy to blankness as she perceived that the room was empty. The Opened Shutters Ladies of the highest rank would suffer their reserve to thaw in such interviews; besides that, before unresisting humility and inferiority too apparent even haughtiness the most intractable usually abates its fervour. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 The incidental violence, which aroused attention and wrath, differed in nothing but circumstance from the procedure when an unresisting merchant vessel was deprived of men. Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 There was a helpless unresisting agony in his tone and the look on his face. Young Hilda at the Wars How many of his unresisting subjects had he condemned to suffer death—the death of acute lingering, long-drawn-out, seemingly interminable suffering? With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure Bones took the spear from his unresisting hand. The Keepers of the King's Peace Fluttering it in the air so that its folds seemed to quiver like the pinions of a fiend, he flung it upon Perpetua and swathed it tightly about her unresisting body. The Proud Prince The soldiers dragged him forward and flung him, an unresisting, trembling heap, on to the middle of the floor. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg The lynx, badly torn and bitten, but with no fatal injury, pounced upon the unresisting body of the catamount and mauled it till well assured of the completeness of his victory. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life And, so saying, he took the pistol from Vasilovich’s unresisting hand. With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure Lost, yonder, amidst bankless, boundless marsh—soaking in slow shallowness, as it will, hither and thither, listless, among the poisonous reeds and unresisting slime—it is free also. On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature He took her unresisting arm and led her through the tunnelled wall and into the White Doe Inn. Barbarians To say, "It will make me unhappy if you do that," was an extreme exercise of maternal authority, to which the child yielded unresisting obedience. Daughters of the Puritans A Group of Brief Biographies The wild forefathers of this species were clearly natural born sheep-slayers, and the motive abides to this day in all the breeds which have the strength to assail our unresisting flocks. Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization Ernestine did so, unresistingly, and lay for several minutes perfectly quiet, with her eyes wide open; and then they began to grow startled, and went suddenly to Bea's face, and stopped there. Six Girls A Home Story It may have been hypnotism, or some kindred mystery, but we were unresisting children in his hands. The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly The unresisting Bert was brought underneath this quartette, and then his hands were lifted up until they could grasp them in their own. Bert Lloyd's Boyhood A Story from Nova Scotia "Thou dost wrong me!" said the cavalier; and he took her hand tenderly, almost unresistingly, for a moment. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 Beaching the boat, they bound on shore, and lift their captives out; then the spoils—one unresisting as the other. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea He took her unresisting hand in his, and again they walked side by side, so close that the strong wind once more brushed the little ringlet against his cheek. The Candidate A Political Romance Terrified at this menace she allowed herself to be dragged unresistingly into the forest. The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 They will inform the "rolling stone" that if he continues his unresisting methods he will gather no moss, but the rolling stone usually continues to roll merrily onward. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends Less then, than men! than women, slaves, or beasts!—Perish like cattle, if ye will, unbound but unresisting, all armed but unavenged!—And ye—great Gods! The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 But I would not destroy his dreams before there was occasion—and sat silent and unresisting, as he poured forth his matrimonial schemes for my aggrandizement. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 She was hurried away, an unresisting captive, but was ultimately restored to her father by the exertions of Lion Gardiner. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science But is it not better to lose it while believing that I have still a chance of saving it by going, than to await certain death calmly and unresisting in Clinton? A Confederate Girl's Diary He walked beside her while she pelted him,—unresisting, helplessly silent. Robert Elsmere Then Pastor Tappau blindfolded her, all unresisting, but with languid wonder in her heart as to what was to come next. Curious, if True Strange Tales It would have been easier to let slip the straining cable than to cast it from her when it lay unresistingly in her hand. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 Thus when they saw the warrior's steel No life-destroying blow might deal, The pair, for lore renowned, Deep in the pit their hands had made The unresisting giant laid, And killed him neath the ground. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Neither the staff-officer nor my father would shoot or cut down unarmed and unresisting men; but perhaps they expect to capture the whole army at a later hour. A Lieutenant at Eighteen Carrying Mrs. Clinton to a grassy nook under the shade of the cliffs, she unresistingly allowed old Terry to take the infant from her arms, and her dulled eyes took no heed of what followed. Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898 It is very true of them, as we see them here,—so unresisting, and yet so resistless. Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California He pulled the unresisting scapegoat out of his chair and hustled him to the rear of the office. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 He took her unresisting hand in his, and under the cover of the tablecloth held it tight. Jack O' Judgment Instantly the man’s comrades to right and left of him seized the unhappy wight by the arms and led him forward unresisting to within about ten paces of the king. Through Veld and Forest An African Story A rod of unresisting copper carries away uninjured and unwarmed an atmospheric discharge competent to shiver to splinters a resisting oak. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 At first they encountered nothing but the unresisting water; and then one hindfoot grazed the crocodile’s back, but the tough hide turned the sharp claws aside. The Black Phantom How it happened I scarcely knew, but the next instant she was in my arms, held close to my breast, and I was showering kisses on her unresisting lips and eyes. The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada He shot over the tail-race into the river limp and unresisting, like a dead fish. The Man from the Bitter Roots He leans his head, kisses her lifted and unresisting lips, and says, "God bless you," and that is all. Shadows of Shasta Mrs. Wilfer thanked him with a magnanimous sigh, and again became an unresisting prey to that inscrutable toothache. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV Mark and Dean allowed themselves to be forced unresistingly along, wild-eyed and staring, but not with fear, for self for the time being had no existence in their minds. Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain blacks and whites He is a leather-mouthed fish, so that once hooked you are sure of him; he struggles fiercely for a moment, then yields without further effort, and allows himself to be dragged unresistingly to land. The Teesdale Angler They wasted no time in words, but between them dragged and carried the unresisting sportsman to the cabin. The Man from the Bitter Roots She flung both arms around his neck and more than one soft kiss was pressed warmly against his cheek: Timothy all unresisting. The Heart of Arethusa It was dangerous to go near him—at least for me, or any one that was weak and helpless—for it was chiefly upon the unresisting that he ventured his ill-humour. Ran Away to Sea Then, without another word, George felt himself seized by the arm, and unresistingly allowed himself to be led whither his guide pleased. Under the Rebel's Reign "You must not say so: I have done nothing," she said, but she let her hand lie unresistingly between his own, as he took it and pressed it tenderly. A True Friend A Novel From the table the evilly-smiling man took the handcuffs, and grasping the unresisting arms of the unfortunate Gratz, bent them with cruel force until the hands met behind the gradually stiffening back. The Flaw in the Sapphire Then with a firmer grasp he seized the unresisting fingers, and exclaimed, "My God, am I dreaming? it ought to be Lizzie's hand." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Men are not patient under sickness, at least not that unquestioning, unresisting patience which most women and the lower animals show. The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Hastily crossing to her side, he took her hand and unresistingly it lay in his. Under the Rose She, he has in his arms, hears them too, but listens not in silence or unresisting. Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco The gentle, unresisting natives of the West Indian Islands, whose delicate constitutions incapacitated them to bear labours their masters exacted of them, were their first victims. Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Pausing for a moment, one of them produced a cord, with which they proceeded to bind their cowardly and unresisting prisoner. The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains My friendlessness aroused no pity in your hearts; I was only an unresisting target at which to throw a convenient stone. The Fighting Shepherdess In a short time he had collected a number of unresisting captives, and had put them aside from the rest. The Scalp Hunters “Just as it please you,” assents the young cacique, unresistingly. Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco Morrel led the unresisting young man to the coupé, Maximilian and the guides following the pair at a short distance in order to guard against any unforeseen freak on the part of poor Massetti. Monte-Cristo's Daughter He took his brother by the arm, and led him unresistingly away, followed by the dark-skinned Indian, who, with the usual reticence of his race, had stood like a brown statue, silently observing events. The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains No longer able to restrain himself, he hastily quitted the back of the sofa, threw himself down beside her and clasping her in his arms drew her unresistingly upon his bosom. Edmond Dantès My hand wandered over its surface, until the unresisting fingers of my companion were clasped in mine. The Scalp Hunters There in the lee of all, better sheltered, he dismounts, flings his arms around the unresisting girl, and sets her afoot upon the ground. Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco The renegade, having raised the unresisting captive in his arms, proceeded to carry her from the spot. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse It is safe to assume that, had he had the ordinary listless, unresisting mind, disposed to brood, and easily cast down, he would, from the first derangement, have become a hopeless and demented lunatic. History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance He reached forward, drawing his chair a little nearer to her, and then boldly took one of her small unresisting hands, gently, that he might not frighten her, and smoothed it thoughtfully between his own. Marcia Schuyler There was the disguise, and then the scene of preparing Francis for another flight, his helplessness, and the calm, unresisting way in which he had yielded himself to Leoni’s hands. The King's Esquires The Jewel of France Thou hast beheld in Spring the dark green blade That stabs up through the unresisting earth; At last the Summer crowns it with a flower. Stories in Verse I soon found that Abdulmomen, like many more clergymen, was willing enough to do all the preaching, whenever he found an unresisting listener. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver I said, laying my hand on his arm, and drawing him unresistingly away. Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time They recalled all the encroachments upon her neutrality, all the infringements of her sovereignty, to which Greece had submitted unresistingly, trusting to the Allies' solemn promises. Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 By the time he had reached the east veranda, Tryon was gently leading away the unresisting Hayes, and a rose-leaf shoe, visible between two pots of giant croton, guided the stalker to his prey. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Florian and Geraldine join to arrest his steps: the bravos withdraw the insensible and unresisting Eugenia upon the opposite side: The various characters dispose themselves into a picture, and the curtain falls upon the Scene. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 I dream of your faces: divinest compassion Would yearn the poor toiler to pity and save; And your largeness of scorn would descend on the fashion Which binds, unresisting, the idler a slave. The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 The scythes flashed in the sun; and the ripe corn fell in great unresisting masses. The Choice of Life Its struggles grew weaker and weaker, and finally its head sank below the waves, and it joined the unresisting creepers that were being dragged along to destruction. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old There is indeed a point in this downward course, where the habit has acquired undisputed power, and the whole moral feelings yield to it unresisting submission. The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings Not merely can it make him accept hardship and suffering unresistingly, but it can make him accept as truth the explanation that his perfectly preventable afflictions are sublimely just and gentle. Human Traits and their Social Significance In the mean time, the "Leopard," none too chivalric to take advantage of an unresisting foe, had chosen her position, and was pouring in a deliberate fire. The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 I used to write on that unresisting life as one writes on the sand; and, the easier I found it to make the impress of my will, the faster was it obliterated. The Choice of Life Her lips have been defiled by a slave's kisses; she hath lain unresisting in a slave's arms, to the unending shame of her proud lord father. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain The man made a motion to run, but Philip clutched his arm, and he stood cowering and unresisting. Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray Impulsively encircling the unresisting form, he answers upon those upturned lips. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 A passion of affection was on him; he would take her unresisting hand and lead her as though she were his, really, and before them was their moated castle. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure So saying, he carried her off, unresistingly and almost unconsciously; his war-worn locks and long gray beard mingling with her light-brown tresses, as her head reclined on his strong square shoulder. The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III In a moment, his finger was in my button-hole, and his rheumy optics glittering with the satisfaction of your true bore, when he has met with an unresisting subject. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 But it was weeks before he was known to show his face outside of his own rooms or the Conservatoire; for he gave way, unresisting, to the morbidness always lying in wait for him. The Genius The arm beneath his hand trembled, and he drew it unresistingly through his own. A Master Of Craft She dragged the unresisting Magdaléna into the room, arrayed her in a waterproof, and pinned a black shawl tightly about the small brown face. The Californians "I shall make the shock as gentle as possible," he said and kissed her unresisting hand. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! He pulled the corpse away from the unresisting Telt and heaved it across his own shoulders. Planet of the Damned A moment before his right hand had closed, gently, over her own unresisting one; and the words he was speaking would have been inaudible to any one two yards away. The Genius She would not allow herself to be taken beyond the sound of the grotesque old dance music that was still going on, but otherwise she was unresisting. The Daughters of Danaus For instance, the girl knew some French, and was no tame, unresisting fool; and then Margaret's illness had occurred, and had caused delay, and given time for reflection. The Mark Of Cain She was flattered immensely and unresisting; the gallant Foster had carried all before him. John Forster He supported the unresisting weight on his shoulder, and as he kept afloat, he despairingly scanned the horizon. Shelled by an Unseen Foe Then a spear-head flashed from behind a rock with a quick, vicious upward thrust, the clergyman fell upon his hands and knees, and the horde poured over him to seize their unresisting victims. A Desert Drama Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" Mr. Dugdale took her unresisting, to a quiet inn he knew, and there made her lie down and take food. Agatha's Husband A Novel She seized her astonished father by the hand and led him unresisting from the room. The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands He still remained perfectly motionless, so that the bear, disdaining, apparently, to attack an unresisting foe, dropped on his forelegs again. Ungava Had he followed his first impulse, which would have been to sweep her to his breast, he would have found her unresisting, submissive, acquiescent. A Little Traitor to the South A War Time Comedy With a Tragic Interlude "Peasley, what are you about?" he exclaimed as he twisted the weapon out of the man's unresisting grasp. George at the Fort Life Among the Soldiers An almost instinctive leap to catch the trapeze-bar that had hung in his cage brought his hands in contact with only unresisting air. The Ape, the Idiot & Other People So complete was the surprise, and so unresistingly did the Jews submit to slaughter, that only one Roman was killed. For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem Even when the nurse pulls one of the unresisting muttonheads, and it emits a loud "Baa-a," she stops only just for a second or two and then wails again. Children of the Tenements He allowed himself to be carried unresistingly along, but we were not deceived by this, as we knew perfectly well that he was but waiting an opportunity to get free. With Axe and Rifle A generous Mind finds even its just Resentments languish and die away when their Object becomes the unresisting prey of Death. Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary When, the Aztecs were so enfeebled by want that they could no longer offer resistance, the Spaniards rushed into the town, seized the unresisting Guatemozin, and shouted victory. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited The inhabitants attempted no resistance, still hoping that their peaceful character would save them from ill treatment; and many allowed themselves to be slaughtered, unresistingly. For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem The undisciplined levies of Baker broke at once when attacked; their English officers fought gallantly; many were killed, and the greater portion of the Egyptians massacred almost unresistingly; the rest fled to Trinkatat. Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign Rob’s heart beat heavily, and a cry rose to his lips, but was not uttered, for he felt paralysed, and he would have proved to be an unresisting victim had the puma’s intentions been inimical. Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco Then the water closed over the pair, joined together in a death-grip, and the tide rolled them unresistingly up the stream. Nic Revel A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land They had not long to wait; for, by the express commands of Cortéz, his followers were mowing down unresisting citizens, because the emperor, over whom they had no control, would not surrender himself. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited Then he drew her unresistingly towards him and was in the act of passing his arm round her waist when he remembered his position and drew back awkwardly. The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant As before, he took Prescott's unresisting arm and pointed up at the bright stars in their sea of blue. Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond Thompson took advantage of my helpless condition, and carried me off unresisting to a place which railways can never reach, and where there is nothing to attract fashionable travellers. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 The bull rose to his feet, and, looking around in the most cowed and pitiful manner, walked quietly off, driven unresistingly towards the corral. The Rifle Rangers These last, however, have not come off unscathed; for the Comanches, well armed with guns, bows, and lances, did not die unresistingly. The Lone Ranche Laying his large hand upon her arm, he led her forward unresistingly through the groups of men and women, and onward down a long corridor to where a curtain hid an arched doorway. The Mystics A Novel It was all she could say, but he understood, and clasping her passionately, his head dropped lower over her face, until his warm lips met her unresisting mouth. The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life He led her forward, unresisting, to the study, where her father greeted her with an exclamation of relief. Sisters Three He took my unresisting arm, and carried me off to the vicarage; changing the conversation as we went along, and gradually instilling fresh hope into my heart. She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. The pirates were scattered all over the upper deck, killing the unresisting Spaniards as if they had been so many rats. The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba A running bowline was promptly slipped over his tail and drawn taut; and he was triumphantly and unresistingly towed alongside the “Victory,” and hoisted inboard. Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War And remember, also, that no abnormal strength of will is needed if your patient be passive, unresisting.” The Adventures of Dick Maitland A Tale of Unknown Africa She pushed him unresisting down a passage and into a storeroom, boarded off from the main cellar, where the scenery of the dramatic society was kept. Just Patty And while they stood open-mouthed, yet dumb, in came the Scamp, and, with a brisk assumption of delegated authority, took Griffith's weapon out of his now unresisting hand, then marched to Neville. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 For nearly three centuries one set of greedy Viceroys and high officials after another settled from the mother country upon unresisting Mexico and sucked its blood like vampires. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development She took Matthew Henry's small, unresisting hand, and the four pelted down the slope. Major Vigoureux Then, the walls unresisting, he cut in the vastly larger, but infinitely less powerful, I-P ray, and with it systematically riddled the immense heptagon. Spacehounds of IPC Even before his accumulators failed, generator after generator burned out, the defensive screen collapsed, and the red converter beam attacked voraciously the unresisting metal of those prodigious walls. Triplanetary I'm perfectly sick of reading that everlasting rubbish about "pampered minions of the aristocracy slaughtering the unresisting pheasant in his thousands at battues." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 10, 1892 You know me well enough to be assured, that I will never be again in the scrape of attacking an unresisting antagonist, were he ten times my brother. St. Ronan's Well He pressed kisses on the unresisting lips, kisses that then were sacred to affianced lovers and husbands. A Little Girl in Old Salem But in revenge for this the sons of the king, when Parasurāma was away, returned to the hermitage and slew the pious and unresisting sage Jamadagni, who called fruitlessly for succour on his valiant son. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Greatly moved, he suddenly reached forth and drew her unresistingly to him, smothering her hair, her eyes with kisses, clinging to her, as if he would never, never let her go. The Secret of the Storm Country Seizing Ruth's hand, she led her, unresisting, to meet a tail, broad-shouldered, smooth-faced man, whose piercing gray eyes constantly scanned the various persons scattered along the platform. Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College The strong will, the magic smile were acting on me like a spell, and I yielded unresistingly to their influence. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author She suffered herself unresistingly to be led forward to her doom. Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 He was swept on, unresisting, by the high flood of the new day. The Seventh Noon Tabitha had suddenly grown calm again, and as she issued orders to the panic-stricken sisters, she was deftly at work herself, pouring the vile-tasting emetic down poor, unresisting Toady's throat. Tabitha's Vacation Mollie took the paper from Betty's unresisting hand, smoothed it out, traced her finger down the column and finally came to the name she sought. The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue And both Mrs. Truscott's white hands now seized and clasped the unresisting, passive members that lay, still gloved, in her companion's lap. Marion's Faith. |
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