It took its reasonableness for granted, and allowed the speaker to continue without a pause into conversation sane and unexaggerated.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
In an unexaggerated way he was fastidious of his appearance and gave a careful regard to his bodily welfare.
"The Son of his Father"
Ridgwell Cullum
To deem that the biggest of these were children of little John Stiles, is not only farcical in the extreme, but it necessarily, however indirectly, asperses good William Morse, that "sincere and understanding Christian," and also his equally good wife, who passed through the severe ordeals of witchcraft scenes and persecutions, and came forth untarnished,-asperses them by an imputation of incompetency to observe and describe with average clearness and accuracy events that passed before their eyes,-incompetency to give a truthful and unexaggerated account of what they saw.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam