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General and horse were suspended in air, unpropped by Delaware ice cakes or the neoclassic columns of Mount Vernon.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Mom, you better not have unpropped that door,” Natalie muttered, pulling her mother along, too.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

"No," said Mrs. Martha; and the serious assertion had all the more effect because it stood alone, unpropped by a single reason.

From What Necessity Knows by Dougall, Lily

Hogarth found him kneeling, said "Get up", and O'Hara stood, leaning upon the rail, too faint to stand unpropped, Hogarth contemplating him, tapping the toes.

From The Lord of the Sea by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)

I. of Gillman's Coleridge is forever to stand unpropped by Vol.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various