Example Sentences

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All their dark and rude notion of a reformed state was to live unbutchered by the Barons and untaxed by their governors.

From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

I had wandered from the right path—fed on husks with the Confederate swine; but I was wounded—had come back; should the fatted calf remain unbutchered, and the loving welcome be withheld?

From Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee by Cooke, John Esten