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But those who slept not, saw with startled eyes Far off, athwart dim unprotecting skies, Ascending slowly with majestic grace, A lustrous rocket, rising out of space.

From Custer, and Other Poems. by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

The heavy dragoons all wore cocked hats, of all coverings of the head the most unprotecting and the most inconvenient.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various

It was unprotected and unprotecting; there was no dignity in it nor any hope of greatness.

From Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair

Bearing in mind, however, the declaration of Manu, it is our opinion that a fourth part of such sins becomes the unprotecting king's.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan

The party broke up: the company dispersed; and the poor, unconsidered, unaided proteg�e, dejectedly left the house, at the same moment that it was quitted triumphantly, by her vain, superficial, unprotecting patroness.

From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny