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A royally descending gift of demesne,—as such, sacred from the intrusion of despoiling hands, and therefore happily preserved to us undesecrated of Nature's abounding charms and native beauty.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton

The old bookshelves remained untouched; the old books, in their musty brown calf bindings, were undesecrated by profaning hands.

From Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance by Cameron, H. Lovett, Mrs.

Below them the snow lay untrodden, exquisitely pure, piled here in great drifts, falling away there in wonderful curves and hollows, but always showing a surface perfect and undesecrated by any human touch.

From Greatheart by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

Go into his temple in Western China, and you will find this deity dripping with plasters, with scarcely an undesecrated space on his superficies.

From An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma by Morrison, George Ernest

Then again they sat apart by themselves, relaxing after a long ride through the valley or on the wonderful mountain road as yet undesecrated by automobiles.

From The Higher Court by Daggett, Mary Stewart