Example Sentences

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Is it just disco nostalgia and a yen for this broad, unfanged brand of camp?

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2011

After the Bacchants were thus properly hewn, planed, unhorned, and unfanged, they were caused to seat themselves each on a stool with only one leg.

From The Student-Life of Germany by Howitt, William

The girl had drawn from him as from an adder unfanged.

From The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel by Saltus, Edgar

He overrides them when the fit is on him, as if they were unfanged serpents––and so far he has escaped.”

From Hidden Water by Dixon, Maynard