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But wherever the mûmakil came there the horses would not go, but blenched and swerved away; and the great monsters were unfought, and stood like towers of defence, and the Haradrim rallied about them.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Many foes stood before it, and on the further half of the plain were other hosts still unfought.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Very well, said the Shearers' Union in the inevitable manifesto, then "not an ounce of non-union wool shall go unfought from Australasia."

From Thirty Years in Australia by Cambridge, Ada

Cuchullain is my man and I forbid it; He shall not go unfought for I myself— 71 CUCHULLAIN.

From In The Seven Woods Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

The news that the war was over spread rapidly among the soldiers, causing general disappointment, for the officers could do nothing but leave the battle unfought and withdraw their troops.

From Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by White, Trumbull