This unexpected check from a boy, so much less than himself, might probably have cooled the courage of Mash, had he not been ashamed of yielding to one whom he had treated with so much unmerited contempt.
He acquitted Harry of all blame, and said that it was impossible, even for the mildest temper in the world, to act otherwise upon such unmerited provocation.
And if you desire further explanations from me, you must ask for them at the price men pay for inflicting unmerited insult.
There's a speech--sometimes an able one--setting forth a long catalogue of unmerited injuries and long suffering.
No longer unmerited shame and terror had power to bend her soul.
And that when, as God is my judge above me, I have done my best to relieve what has seemed to me the unmerited sorrows of two poor sufferers!
Had there been a grain of tenderness there, he could not have spoken so often as he had done of Mrs. Peacocke without expressing some grief at theunmerited sorrows to which that poor lady had been subjected.
Indefinite perils and unmerited gallows' menace to this interesting erstwhile suitor startle not love-loyal girlish fancy.
Over earth and sea, in unmerited exile, wanders an unfortunate victim of lying circumstance, fearless to a fault of personal harm, yet bound by filial fetters in unswerving fealty to family prestige and parental name.
How escape deserved reckoning in the one and unmerited accounting in the other?
From hunted sense of unmerited outlawry I have passed to that of 'ermine' function.
Esther begins to see that the world groans beneath weight of unmerited burdens.
The gallows have no terrors other than those ofunmerited ignominy.
His last campaign was fought under the burden of an apparent official censure, galling to a man of Custer's impetuous nature, all the more so as he knew it to be unmerited and unjust.
Posterity may respect the patriot whose star sinks in unmerited failure, but it bows homage to him if he wages against despotism a victorious fight.
To dream that you seek adulation, foretells that you will pompously fill unmerited positions of honor.
For a young woman, this is a dream prophetic of disappointment and unmerited slights.
He had the melancholy knowledge that her end was hastened by her taking to heart her husband's crushing cares and unmerited ill-usage.
They both believed him sincere in his professed regard for religious liberty; they both felt for him a real, though it seems to us an unmerited regard.
Her fortitude and good conscience, nevertheless, sustained her under her unmerited wrongs.
He had endured heavy tribulation without losing hope; he had never lost hold of his past and his future; he had instinctively and insensibly acquired a healthy philosophy under the stress of his unmerited misfortune.
In it were concisely enumerated Lord Dundonald's services as a British naval officer, and the hardships brought upon him by the unmerited Stock Exchange trial.
Godfrey and his infamous accomplice Mathews were apprehended, convicted and condemned, and suffered for their crimes on the very spot which had witnessed the rescue of Anthony Hurdlestone from a death of unmerited infamy.
In such a party, Harriet would be rather a dead weight than otherwise; but for the poor girl herself, it seemed a peculiarly cruel necessity that was to be placing her in such a state of unmerited punishment.
I had no wish for unmerited praise, but I was too ready to settle that I did merit it.
The old adage, "Trust to luck," like many other adages that time has kept inunmerited circulation, is a bad one.
Speaking his own personal feelings, he knew too well the tempers of his countrymen to expose himself to the danger of thus perishing under a charge alike unmerited and disgraceful.
Be not too much humiliated, either with your defeats or with your present unmerited hardships.
With assertions that this choice is matter of grace, or unmerited favor, bestowed in eternity past: Eph.
