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As Packard’s helicopters near their target, punch through a “perpetual storm system” that girdles the island, and discover a paradise of unravished greenery, the movie lays out its credentials.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 5, 2017

Baiata and his cronies were on the point of sealing the deal with the Indianapolis bank—the signal for the looting to start—when they were rounded up and Lincoln Life remained unravished.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ah! long we viewed thee thus, forlornly free, In that dead grove the sole unravished tree; Lo! the dark axeman smites! the oak lies low That towered in lonely calm o'er land and sea!

From The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 by Various

Particularly with the soil as it was then, unravished by revolution, with its original fertility unimpaired, it was rarely necessary to replant the sugar cane.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher

Hither I can retreat And drink of peace where peace unravished stays.

From Beautiful Gardens in America by Shelton, Louise