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Her flag upon the heights of power— Stainless and unassayed to place, To this one end his earnest face Was bent through every burdened hour.

From The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President by Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline)

He left nothing unassayed to disgrace himself, to grace his friend.”—p.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

Mother was almost equally bulky, with an unassayed number of garments, but over them all she wore a still respectable Raglan town coat.

From The Innocents A Story for Lovers by Lewis, Sinclair

And what is faith, love, virtue, unassayed Alone, without exteriour help sustained?

From Paradise Lost by Milton, John