Example Sentences

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We are constrained to such a vigilance as will not let even a master’s work pass unfanned and unpurged. 

From The Rhythm of Life by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson

Surely also the pots of "the Forty" do boil before the Lord, and the flames of the chosen were unfanned by the feather of 'Arry's goose-quill.

From The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by Whistler, James McNeill

But the sectional fires were not left to die unfanned.

From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring