What is "unshrinking"

Usage examples of "unshrinking".

The accommodations being greatly restricted, every body, from the moment of entering the boat, acts upon a system of unshrinking egotism.

Was there enough capital of humanity in his somewhat limited nature to furnish sympathy and unshrinking service for his friends in an emergency?

She was talking and laughing with a young man of weak military aspect, whose eyes gazed unshrinking on her beauty.

But tonight not even the description of the valiant unshrinking martyr of Free-thought ascending the scaffold to meet his doom could in the slightest degree affect her.

Her beauty was of the robust order, her colouring high, her glance unshrinking, and her hands large and red.

Nothing can be more touching, than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness, while threading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly rising in mental force to be the comforter and support of her husband under misfortune, and abiding with unshrinking firmness the bitterest blasts of adversity.

Reggie Fenyx, somehow managing to combine a deferential manner with a bold and unshrinking gaze.

Flowing gilt hair framed her face, a strong-chinned, proud-cheekboned visage which, along with the unshrinking gaze of her wide-set blue eyes, spoke volumes about the legendary stubbornness of the Halogai.

If he were condemned to be blown from his own gun, he would face the ordeal unshrinking, almost with indifference.

The bent head, the averted eye, the faltering voice, the wincing figurethese, and not the unshrinking gaze and frank reply, are the true signals of passion.

But there was something that might have spoken, too, of death upon the battle-field, or in the deadly breach, or in some enterprise where daring courage needed to be supported by unshrinking pertinacity and resolution.

More resolute brows, more determined words, more unshrinking hearts, I had not met.

Katherine, seeing in his bright eyes heroism and lofty resolve, felt a dewy moisture gather in her own: there is something at once awful and affecting, when a man, the sport of fortune, meets her rudest blow unshrinking, and turns her very spite into arms against herself.

His brother, the Cardinal of Lorraine, one of the most conspicuous ecclesiastics of the age, was a Gallican prelate, obnoxious to Rome, and willing to concede much in favour of the Confession of Augsburg as an arm against Geneva, maintaining his power by every means, and an avowed and unshrinking advocate of assassination.

What remained but to encounter or endure its consequences with unshrinking firmness?