"You should not have left him," she said to him unbendingly, "even though I myself can see there is little help that can be given. Thought you his Grace and I would brook that he should die alone if we could not have reached him?"英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
"His Grace knew what I came to do and how I should do it," the duchess said, unbending still. "But for affairs of State which held him, he would have been here at my side."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
When the brow of the Dean is unbended At luncheons and mild tete-a-tetes, When the Tutor's in love, nor offended By blunders in tenses or dates; When bouquets are purchased of Bates, When the bells in their melody chime, When unheeded the Lecturer prates - Sweet hours and the fleetest of time!英文原著 · 《Ballads in Blue China and Verses and Translations》
"Coming to take me to Santo Domingo," explained Mr. Clair. He spoke airily, as though to him as a means of locomotion battle-ships were as trolley-cars. The Planter's punch, which was something he had never before encountered, encouraged the great young man to unbend. He explained further and fully, and Billy, his mind intent upon his own affair, pretended to listen.英文原著 · 《Billy and the Big Stick》
Lord Vane got the best place he could fight for amid the crowd. Justice Hare sat as chairman, unusually stern, unbending, and grim. No favor would he show, but no unfairness. Had it been to save his son from hanging, he would not adjudge guilt to Francis Levison against his conscience. Colonel Bethel was likewise on the bench, stern also.英文原著 · 《East Lynne》
Though I understood quite well, without this emphasizing, that the little lady would, with her unbending traditions, probably think it more re- spectable to approach Kings Port in a wheelbarrow, I was absorbed by the vague but copious import of Mrs. Gregory's announcement. The oracles, moreover, continued.英文原著 · 《Lady Baltimore》