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It is not cheery, but dreary, to be left in pathlessness, blanketless, guideless, and with breadths of lake and mountain and Nature, shaggy and bearish, between man and man.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various

At night there came on a cold rain, drenched by which the blanketless wanderer was forced to seek sleep in the open wood.

From Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles

He kindled a fire, cooked his game, and, exhausted, blanketless, drenched by a cold rain, made his prayer to Heaven, and again lay down to sleep.

From Pioneers of France in the New World by Parkman, Francis

In her thoughts she could see this stalwart woodsman of hers camping somewhere in the snowdrifts, blanketless, staying awake through the bitter night to mend the fire, and perhaps in trouble.

From The Snowshoe Trail by Marshall, Edison

There was no flooring to the room, which contained no one perfect or complete article of furniture, but symptoms of many, from the blanketless bed down to the solitary coverless saucepan.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various