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1826.  Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. II. II. 129. Her fixed, settled, unsmiling silence hung over the banquet like a cloud.

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1847.  C. Brontë, J. Eyre, xxxi. An unsmiling … gaze it was.

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1873.  Dixon, Two Queens, XIX. v. IV. 26. Charles, with meek, unsmiling face, knelt in his chapel.

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  Hence Unsmilingly adv., Unsmilingness.

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1873.  Miss Broughton, Nancy, II. 65. The utter unsmilingness of his expression.

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1879.  Howell, L. Aroostook, xxvi. ‘Is it something disagreeable?’ asked Stainford lightly. ‘It’s right,’ assured Lydia, unsmilingly.

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