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1690.  T. Burnet, Theory Earth, II. 41. Those [prophecies] that concern the end of the world are of this latter sort to unobserving men.

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1749.  Fielding, Tom Jones, VIII. xii. There are people who find an inconvenience in this unobserving temper of mankind.

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1792.  Charlotte Smith, Desmond, I. 142. An unobserving or disinterested spectator of what was passing.

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1815.  Zeluca, III. 106. Wholly unobserving of the earnest conversation of her companions.

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1818.  Scott, Br. Lamm., xxxii. To an eye so unobserving as that of Bucklaw.

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