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Unbowed   /ənbˈoʊd/  /ənbˈaʊd/   Listen
Unbowed

adjective
1.
Erect in posture.  Synonyms: straight, unbent.  "Stood defiantly with unbowed back"
2.
Not forced to bow down to a conqueror.






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"Unbowed" Quotes from Famous Books



... Tower, with his wife, under pretence of there waiting till his wounds were cured, to abide his trial, and in that awful hour Sir Nigel stood alone. Yet he was undaunted, for he feared not death even at the hangman's hand; his spirit was at peace, for he was innocent of sin; unbowed, for he was no traitor—he was a patriot warrior still. Pale he was, indeed, ashy pale, but it told a tale of intense bodily anguish. They had put him to the torture, to force from his lips the place of his brother's retreat, that being the only pretence on which the rage of Edward and the malice ...
— The Days of Bruce Vol 1 - A Story from Scottish History • Grace Aguilar

... within him. But not without reason was he Chief, for he could control himself as well as others. A pallor spread beneath the smoky tan of his broad features, but without an instant's hesitation he strode to the front, and stood like Grom, with unbowed head, leaning calmly on his great club. His thought was that the Shining One must be indeed a god, and might, indeed, slay him from afar, like the lightning, but it could not make ...
— In the Morning of Time • Charles G. D. Roberts

... strangers, but could not effect an escape without attracting the attention she so earnestly desired to be spared, and therefore kept her seat. Every word of the conversation, which had been carried on in anything but a subdued tone, reached her, and though the head was unbowed as if she had heard nothing, her face was dyed with shame. Her heart throbbed violently, and as the words, "beggarly orphan," "wretched object of charity," fell on her ears, it seemed as if a fierce fire-bath had received her. As the carriage disappeared, ...
— Beulah • Augusta J. Evans

... command shone in the eyes of Gabriel Druse. Leadership was written all over him. Power spoke in every motion. The square, unbowed shoulders, the heavily lined face, with the patriarchal beard, the gnarled hands, the rough-hewn limbs, the eye of bright, brooding ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... aside as she swept past him, her head unbowed, splendid even in her moment of surrender—almost, it seemed, unbeaten to ...
— The Hermit of Far End • Margaret Pedler

... power was rising to flatten them all. He had heard Tau describe such things in the past. But told in familiar quarters on board the Queen, such experiences were only stories. Here was danger unleashed. Yet the medic stood unbowed as the wave broke upon ...
— Voodoo Planet • Andrew North

... the center of either half. Only one half of the entire string is struck, but the motion of this half is imparted to the other half and throws it into similar motion, and if a tiny A-shaped piece of paper or rider is placed upon the unbowed ...
— General Science • Bertha M. Clark



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