Unharried

Urban Romantic If the thought of solitude, countryside retreats and self-improvement courses bring on an fearsome attack of ennui but you still crave a little peace and quiet, you don't have to leave the city to have an unharried adventure. ❋ Jemima Sissons (2011)

Possibly happiest when unharried at the head of affairs, she was never able to get into her usual rhythm down in trip at the Cheltenham Festival last month, but ran a fine trial for this contest by finishing second to Holmwood Legend. ❋ Unknown (2011)

After a while the soldiers relaxed in the glow of a good deed and she rode to town unharried. ❋ Martin Cruz Smith (2010)

The dream of a balanced life is different than the fantasy of 100 percent unharried days. ❋ Marc And Amy Vachon (2010)

But the president and the men and women who surround him are (to an imposing degree) gentle and reasonable persons, of abstract mind and unharried imaginations. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bin Laden slipped away into the wilds of Pakistan, where he has remained unharried and unharmed ever since. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Despite the neonatal state of the country, the start of Washington's presidency was slow and relatively unharried. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I think the "newsiness" of this interview may be in Gore's calm and unharried response to the issue of the Primary. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In particular, mere associations are not always matters of meaning: someone might regularly associate bachelors with being harried, but this wouldn't therefore seriously be a part of the meaning of “bachelor” (“an unharried bachelor” is not contradictory). ❋ Rey, Georges (2008)

Some choose to exit the ring with their integrity intact and the prospect of many pleasant, unharried years ahead; witness global patron saint Albert Gore, Jr. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I just had a chance to read your latest, unharried and undistracted. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The goats of Siaba must live a marginal, though unharried, existence. ❋ David Quammen (2004)

The mid-section of the Mil line proceeded unharried by the ships which concentrated their efforts on the ends. ❋ McCaffrey, Anne (1967)

She had not yet seen enough actual space cruising to acquire the characteristic deep Okie star-burn, nor yet to lose the wonder of being now, by Utopian standards, virtually immortal, and so she seemed still very pink and young and unharried. ❋ Blish, James (1957)

Valley -- a pleasant, rolling country, where the timber was interspersed with patches of open grassland and set with small lakes, wherein schools of big trout lived their finny lives unharried by anglers -- save when some wandering Indian snared one with a primitive net. ❋ Bertrand W. Sinclair (1926)

Or, if he had not been a plumber's apprentice did he yearn to once again assume the unharried peace of whatever legitimate calling had been his before he bent his steps upon the broad boulevard of sin? ❋ Unknown (1918)

We ate at our leisure -- out of doors -- the first unhurried and unharried meal I have had for days, and then got back to the Legation. ❋ Hugh Gibson (1918)

Truly it was good to be here, and to enter for a brief hour into the shy, wild but unharried life of the wood folk. ❋ William Joseph Long (1909)