Time enough when he was again flung out on that merciless, unrecognizing world he had come to loathe; loathe and dread.
"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"
W. B. M. Ferguson
If the memory of Fenton's cold, unrecognizing eyes and rigid mouth, as they passed each other in the silence of the Cathedral, had power to cause so deep a stab of pain, how was he to brace himself in the future to what must come?
"The Case of Richard Meynell"
Mrs. Humphrey Ward
Had he been newly born into the world, he could not have shown less acquaintance with it, so far as intellectual comprehension went; his father, mother, sister-all were alike strangers to him; he gazed at them with intent but unrecognizing eyes; he never looked up when his name was spoken, nor did he betray any sign of understanding the talk that went on around him.
"Archibald Malmaison"
Julian Hawthorne