"Unwavering" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... squatting motionless on his heels in the middle of the tent, Yoshio watched him, his mask-like face expressionless, his eyes fixed in an unwavering stare. Then he rose cautiously and ...
— The Shadow of the East • E. M. Hull
... stand." Mrs. Butson shut her jaws firmly and treated the small scholars around her to a fierce, unwavering stare. Many winced, remembering her mercies of old. "Go on, young man," ...
— Shining Ferry • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... stout, muffled body seemed all one skipping muscle, and it was truly wonderful to see how swiftly and to all appearance heedlessly he flashed across nerve-trying chasms six or eight feet wide. His courage was so unwavering that it seemed to be due to dullness of perception, as if he were only blindly bold; and I kept warning him to be careful. For we had been close companions on so many wilderness trips that I had formed the habit of talking to him as if he ...
— Stickeen • John Muir
... in Coleridge's occasional sarcastic comments on the banalites of our national poet's most prosaic commentator, Warburton—the "thought-swarming, but idealess Warburton," as he once felicitously styles him. The one man seems to read his author's text under the clear, diffused, unwavering radiance emitted from his own poetic imagination; while the criticism of the other resembles a perpetual scratching of damp matches, which ash a momentary light into one corner of the dark assage, and ...
— English Men of Letters: Coleridge • H. D. Traill
... with inward pride at her own unwavering impartiality, 'I honestly believe that if we were to consider Jane without prejudice we should find that ...
— Peter and Jane - or The Missing Heir • S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan
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