Sentence examples for unpretending from inspiring English sources

"To be pointed at — to be noticed & commented upon — to be suspected of literary airs — to be shunned, as literary women are, by the more unpretending of my own sex: & abhorred, as literary women are, by the more pretending of the other!

Besides, the people were pleased with his courteous and unpretending salutations and greetings, for he never met any citizen, however humble and low, but he returned him his salute by name".

With the house newly refinished, one can see how this one-and-a-half-story dwelling might have served as a model for the one Poe himself wrote of in "Landor's Cottage," his final short story: "In fact nothing could well be more simple — more utterly unpretending than this cottage.

From the epigraph onwards, the tale is directed at men: "This faithful but unpretending record of a remarkable adventure is hereby respectfully dedicated by the narrator, Allan Quatermain, to all the big boys and little boys who read it".

He runs and swings freely and smiles an unpretending Nebraska smile.