"Unkingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... order to depart, and which compelled his refusal to allow a triumph to his foes, might well seem incomprehensible. The result was only that Clarendon was besieged with new suggestions that he should escape, by a flight which it was more than hinted would be connived at. Charles's unkingly task was to bring about by hint and stratagem, what he was not man enough to prescribe by order. He satisfied Clarendon's enemies by openly proclaiming his anger at the Chancellor's delays; he kept up a pretence ...
— The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon V2 • Henry Craik
... of relief, sank into an easy-chair, and mopped his forehead in most unkingly fashion. He had escaped for a moment into ...
— The Traitors • E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
... see the best man in the class privileged in relation to any particular service, discharging that service. The most efficient nation in the world to-day is believed to be Germany, which is—roughly speaking—an aristocratic monarchy, it is dominated by a man of most unkingly force of character, and by a noble tradition of educational thoroughness that arose out of the shames of utter defeat, and, as a consequence, a great number of people contrive to forget that the most dazzling display of national efficiency the world has ever seen ...
— Mankind in the Making • H. G. Wells |
