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Mr. Possum, saved by the stiff fight put up by his ring-tailed woods-brother, had taken this opportunity of unhanging himself and departing into parts unknown, perhaps a still more wily citizen after his threatened extinction.

From Andrew the Glad by Daviess, Maria Thompson

Yet endure the smiling portrait he could not; and obeying an irresistible nameless impulse, he rose, and without unhanging it, reversed the picture on the wall.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

The Spaniards ran her ashore on the point by the Boca Chica, "unhanging her rudder and taking away her sails, that she might not easily be carried away."

From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by Masefield, John

They commenced by unhanging all my scenery, and it was only with difficulty that I got permission to remove a small writing desk containing a few sheets of paper and half-a-dozen postage stamps.

From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 by Mapleson, James H.