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Plato's historian of the other world lies twelve days incorrupted, while his soul was viewing the large stations of the dead.

From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir

Thou, thou art here, to human sight Clothed all with incorrupted light; —But yet how more admir'dly bright Wilt thou appear, when thou art set In thy refulgent thronelet, That shin'st thus in thy counterfeit!

From A selection from the lyrical poems of Robert Herrick by Palgrave, Francis Turner

I found in him the incorrupted virtues of the brave islander, with the improvements of the continent.

From Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman