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This affection can occur only in the pregnant animal, while dropsy of the womb occurs in the unimpregnated.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

Thirty-six long-styled flowers of P. angustifolia were also illegitimately fertilised during two seasons with pollen from the long-styled P. officinalis, but all these flowers dropped off unimpregnated.

From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Darwin, Charles

At eleven in the forenoon, we placed ourselves opposite a hive containing an unimpregnated queen five days old.

From New observations on the natural history of bees by Huber, François

A longing for an atmosphere unimpregnated with petrol eventually sends me stumbling up the companion-way to the deck.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 16, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

In 1704, Etienne Francois Geoffroy,* and in 1711, his brother Claude Joseph Geoffroy,** in support of the same hypothesis, state the general existence of an aperture in the unimpregnated vegetable Ovulum.

From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by King, Phillip Parker