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She had not been unduly anxious about me, knowing I was with Clarence, and guessing we were bushed.
They were, however, run over by the train, and made sausage meat of unduly and before their time.
If we had unconsciously been posing as high and mighty personages, we were not unduly charged for it.
A little free, perhaps, when unduly excited, but not given to drink and very fond of games.
It must be admitted that, like most people brought up with wealth, he was apt to be unduly impatient.
Now and then there were difficult questions or observations, but they were never pressed unduly for reply.
It may be that the circumstances in which the book was written have made me unduly fond of it.
I was feeble and unduly sensitive, or this conduct would not have wounded me so keenly as it did.
This is probably much higher than the actual fact and therefore unduly favorable to the anti-cyclonic hypothesis.
The ceremony was very gorgeous and imposing, and I trust that the pages were not unduly clumsy.
Any stimulus to the nerves, however pleasant at first, becomes painful when long continued or increased unduly.
It may have been that they felt unduly secure against an attack on that day because it was Sunday.
The young American had been unduly excited by their appearance, and was thereafter known as Cheyenne Dawson.
The nail does not really penetrate the sensitive foot, but is so near as to press unduly upon it.
Children crowd about you, their little stomachs unduly swollen and barely covered by a single cotton shirt.
The front taken up was unduly extended and, notably on the extreme left, there were many gaps.
The turnover in the nursing service in hospitals caring for veterans is unduly large, the reports show.
"Has it ever struck you, Uncle Martin, that Penny has an unduly emotional, an almost feminine type of mind?"
For many reasons she was unduly sensitive to the slightest appearance of anything even faintly resembling a liberty.
He was probably concerned that, as a member of his inner circle, I might unduly influence his disciples.
He was desperately anxious to get rid of his burden, but he had no desire to shake it up unduly.
Please don't draw the conclusion that I am becoming unduly interested in our bad-tempered doctor, for I'm not.
His hair was raven-black, and he wore a heavy mustache which stopped just short of being unduly conspicuous.
In order not to complicate matters unduly, the recurrence of solar eclipses alone will first be dealt with.
It is an odd fact that we frequently do not appreciate our possessions until others appear to value them unduly.
Nikolai had the writer's gift of accumulating odd experiences, so that even Ellen lingered unduly about the table.
Still it was thought that the district would not be unduly pressed by a party of twelve Europeans.
"That sounds good, but, Wood, I am afraid that would be loading you unduly with my personal affairs."
If he never minimized a victory in his communications Nelson certainly did not remark unduly on his wounds.
Probably also I was unduly influenced by the evidence proceeding from the public in support of my recommendations.
If you feel that people, circumstances, or things are influencing you unduly, stand up boldly, and deny the influence.
"No, you give me the pencil," said Lizzie, "I lost mine yesterday," and the new members became unduly frivolous.
Those liable to attack must lead a quiet, temperate life, avoiding all scenes which would unduly rouse their emotions.
Certainly this one looked as though it could kill one or both of the mules without exerting itself unduly.
This includes military as well as private machines, also machines exported, and appears to be unduly generous even so.
This would have been the true means of meeting the situation if the existing fund had been unduly impaired.
The Judge makes monkeys of all of us who seek to administer harsh laws in an unduly restricted world.
The afternoon sun, warm, and yet not unduly warm, was flooding the beautiful region with its beams.
There is no point to torturing these passages unduly, however, in the effort to find our distinctions in them.
Its downward slope enabled him to survey its whole length to the entrance without unduly exposing himself.
The figures on juvenile delinquency show that an unduly large proportion of juvenile offenders are children of foreign-born parents.
Unless there had been some gross misconduct, this punishment cannot fail to be regarded by some as unduly harsh.
He exposed himself unduly in one of his walks, while counting the rings on stumps of trees, amid snow.
She was not impulsive, nor was she unduly swayed by her emotions, deep as they sometimes were.
Archer, who was seldom unduly pleased with human events, had been altogether glad of her son's engagement.
Though not seeming unduly curious, his eyes darted about in an eager search for possible clues of any sort.
There were a number of cases in which it seems obvious that the grants were unnecessarily and unduly delayed.
The vendors, however, do not unduly urge, and apparently do not seem to care whether you buy or not.
Whatever they may have been, they had kept him unduly; he had two minutes and wanted seven.
After I was in bed, the noises of the street, unduly prolonged upon this festive evening, kept me awake.
Sir Arthur is not given to praise unduly, and it is seldom that an ensign gets into general orders.
The consequences of loss would be so serious to me that I suppose my imagination becomes unduly active and apprehensive.
Neither does he appear to have been, like some of his contemporaries, unduly intent upon advancing his own selfish interests.
The latter permit the establishment of only such additional mills as shall not unduly increase the market supply.
Such complaints seemed unduly apprehensive; yet before the year closed, most of the textile mills had shut down.
She was in trouble herself, poor little soul, and, being lonely, was no doubt unduly susceptible to sympathy.
It is important to hear what a foreigner, not unduly prejudiced in our favor, has to say upon these points.
Do not rush about and become excited, because that unduly alarms those about you, I will give you ample warning.
See to it, Walter, that they do not expose themselves unduly; we could ill afford to lose one of them.
As superior, he had to stand aloof from the rest, so as not unduly to encourage familiarity in his subjects.
This reacted unduly upon his colleagues; and, when the election came, he was rejected by a single vote.
During the winter Selina had a fever, brought on, it was thought, from exposing herself unduly to damp.
Ricketts takes an unduly optimistic view when she says the Germans mean the war to be decided out here.
As first drawn up, it appears to have been regarded by the medical profession as unduly stringent and unfair.
Though constantly in to see her, I am afraid I did not unduly worry her to join me on the deck.
If they are unduly checked in galloping, they are apt to pull very hard, and greatly tire their riders.
Indeed, I let her know that I was in the house so that she should not be unduly frightened.
You will understand that every possible precaution must be taken to avoid unduly alarming the public, or provoking panic.
The plant can even be placed in the cellar to winter, provided this absolute rest is not unduly prolonged.
The bodily functions should never be artificially stimulated in any way, to increase unduly the assimilation of the food.
His touch is not sufficiently delicate, he does not know when to leave off, he unduly prolongs the agony.
To Frank the glory of the hills faded a little, and the progress of the team seemed unduly slow.
He again inquired, raising his eyebrows and shrugging his shoulders in a manner habitual to him when unduly excited.
I know I must seem unduly expansive, and wanting in reserve; and yet that is not my true disposition.
I supposed them cornered and, advancing slowly so as not to frighten them unduly, I thought to get close.
We may, without unduly stretching the meaning of his changing attitude towards the reform, divide it into three stages.
The fact had long been known to people about the court, but the publication of it was unduly delayed.
It only wants the man to act as superintendent, and stop it if any cutting edge gets unduly worn.
The chief danger is that of killing you with kindness by putting you on exhibition through unduly long hours.
I do not wish to wrongly characterize or to unduly minimize the evidence brought to bear in favor of these theories.
They were not unduly cast down, nor had any appearance of the humiliation that was burning into our souls.
And he ought not to despise low speed if necessary to negotiate the hill without straining the engine unduly.
If this point seems to have been emphasized unduly, it is because we expect to rear upon this foundation a clinical structure.
Let it not be said that I am unduly hard upon them who from choice or misfortune inhabit these places.
He looked like his uncle, he talked like him, he had his same gentle stiffness, he was never unduly familiar.
"Please do not be sarcastic," said Sanders sharply, he was unduly sensitive on the question of such matters as these.
After having most unduly run down their departed guest, the two women resolved never again to invite her.
It may have been her fancy, nevertheless he seemed unduly curious, and that question of his had set her wondering.
The sleeves had also drawn up from his wrists, and left the backs of his hands unduly prominent.
Similarly, when he has been praised, the lad has plumed himself unduly on the thing that found approval.
A little farther on lights and incense draw one to a threshold where it is well not to linger unduly.
Herein lies the excuse for rules that have been considered unduly subtle, or in other ways offensive to modern taste.
When activities in one direction are over intense and unduly prolonged, all vibrations tend to a strain in that direction.
Yet I never heard an expression of impatience or a suggestion that made me suppose they felt themselves unduly burdened.
Even to my impatience the interval did not seem unduly prolonged before I was requested to enter the ceremonial chamber.
There are times, though rare ones, at which we feel that his memory or his notebook has been unduly exploited.
Jane laid an exploring finger on his pulse, but it was not unduly excited or more weak than was safe.
It is not, as we often hear it said, that the critical faculty is unduly developed in the nineteenth century.
Yet these, perhaps, are unduly imaginative for a world where any satisfaction is held by a tenure precarious at best.
To hold back physical tenderness, the simple expressions of love, because he had feared they might unduly influence her!