unfæst not fixed, not firm, loose, unsteady, tottering , CP.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

"If it is true," she sighed, "that you find in me a friend, let us turn back together."
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

A thick fog lay upon the sea; and when the morning came and the sun rose they saw upon the other side of the sea as if many lights were burning.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Jim on the bridge was penetrated by the great certitude of unbounded safety and peace that could be read on the silent aspect of nature like the certitude of fostering love upon the placid tenderness of a mother’s face.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

The powerful light it gave forth lighted up the translucent water, while the cavern became gradually obscure.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

The first Occasion of these Bouts Rimez made them in some manner excusable, as they were Tasks which the French Ladies used to impose on their Lovers.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The Lacedaemonians, when assault failed to take the place, apprehensive of the enterprising and revolutionary character of the Athenians, and further looking upon them as of alien extraction, began to fear that, if they remained, they might be tempted by the besieged in Ithome to attempt some political changes.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Everybody in Ruth’s family looked up to Judge Blount as a man of power and achievement, and they were horrified at Martin’s outbreak.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

It was manifest, however, that the feeling was rather indignation than anxiety; and that my friends looked upon the ominous words as a libel upon their masters and themselves.
— from Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Robert Montgomery Bird

It was therefore resolved to send the fleet among the Dutch fishermen who came to the Yarmouth fishing in September and October, and to continue the process of forcing licenses upon them.
— from The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

All that it is necessary to say by way of preface to this book is, that, having in various former volumes, entitled severally Phallism, Nature Worship, Phallic Objects, &c., entered at some length into a consideration of the peculiarities indicated by these denominations, we now propose laying before our readers an additional mass of important matter which illustrates and throws further light upon the subject.
— from Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India by Hargrave Jennings

Yet these rough freighters looked upon the "situation" very philosophically, and appeared quite indifferent whether they got on or stayed.
— from Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast by James Fowler Rusling

He found that it would be very agreeable to Doctor Bronson and Fred to have Frank's company, and as the opportunity was an excellent one for the youth to see something of foreign lands under the excellent care of the Doctor, it did not take a long time for him to reach a favorable decision.
— from Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Japan and China by Thomas Wallace Knox

Three years, according to Plato, are needed to learn the rudiments of reading and writing before the boys are fairly launched upon this study of the poets.
— from A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis

Here he threw himself full length upon the ground, breathing hard from the unusual physical exertion.
— from The Lead of Honour by Norval Richardson

In deepest luxury he sat day by day on a fallen trunk across the stream, grateful after the blazing descent of a broken hill for the cool shade of trees meeting overhead, watching a fish lying under the bank or rising to snap at a fly.
— from Peter Paragon: A Tale of Youth by John Palmer

There was of course no apparatus of any sort for lighting up these side streets, and I could not help wondering what was the percentage of the population whose nocturnal errands in these dark, dangerous alleys gave them a contused or broken limb.
— from A Lady's Tour in Corsica, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Gertrude Forde