unbroke
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Ay, this is freedom!—these pure skies Were never stained with village smoke: The fragrant wind, that through them flies, Is breathed from wastes by plough unbroke.
From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry
We are wild as colts unbroke, but never mean.
From The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)
"Since we awoke, the word is spoke, And if 'tis still right That English folk keep faith unbroke, Then must England fight."
From The Village Wife's Lament by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
The poet tells of shooting an arrow into the air and "long years afterwards in an oak he found the arrow still unbroke."
From The New North by Cameron, Agnes Deans
Then, broken at last, let swell their burly frame With fattening corn-mash, for, unbroke, they will With pride wax wanton, and, when caught, refuse Tough lash to brook or jagged curb obey.
From The Georgics by Virgil
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