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  • What he said in the House was generally short and pleasant -- with some slight, drolling undercurrent of uninjurious satire running through it.

    Can You Forgive Her? 1993

  • The most reliable and positively uninjurious remedy for incrustations is his anti-incrustation powder -- in successful use for 12 years past.

    Scientific American, Volume 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Various

  • Nor did Ballou condemn all use of "uninjurious, benevolent physical force" in restraining the insane or the man about to commit an injury to another.

    Introduction to Non-Violence Theodore Paullin

  • A sudden rush of a score or two of unarmed friends of equal liberty -- an uninjurious deliverance of the oppressed out of the

    Frederick Douglass 1906

  • As far as we can judge peltate anomalies are quite uninjurious, while ascidia are forms which must impede the effect of the light on the leaf, as they conceal quite an important part of the upper surface.

    Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

  • Rimpau, who has made a thorough study of this evil and has shown its dependency on various external conditions, has also tried to find methods of selection with the aim of overcoming it, or at least of reducing it to uninjurious proportions.

    Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

  • The only way out of this difficulty is to assume that it has arisen at once, in its present apparently differentiated and very variable condition, and that, being quite uninjurious and since it does not decrease the fertility of the race, it has never been subjected to natural selection, and so has saved itself from destruction.

    Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

  • What he said in the House was generally short and pleasant — with some slight, drolling undercurrent of uninjurious satire running through it.

    Can you forgive her? 1864

  • But this is a remedy that fearful humanity will not allow us to use, and consequently I never resort to it, but use equally as effective, but uninjurious means.

    Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "Swamp Doctor" 1858

  • Nevertheless, let such seeds of thought as here are carelessly flung out, nurtured in the good soil of charity, and not unkindly forced into foolish accusations of my own conceit, whereas their meaning is general, (as if forsooth selfishly dibbled in with vain particularity, and not liberally broadcast that he may run that reads,) -- let such crude considerations excuse my own weak and uninjurious invasion of the provinces of other men.

    An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

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