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1659. Fuller, App. Inj. Innoc., III. 21. The roughnesse of his uncourt-like nature, sweetned many men when they least looked for it.
1733. Ld. Chesterf., in Lett. C’tess Suffolk (1824), II. 63. Your letter … I must look upon as a most uncommon and uncourtlike piece of friendship.
1865. Stopford Brooke, in Life & Lett. (1917), I. x. 179. He is—they say on account of this uncourtlike manner—a great favourite with the Queen.
