unrent
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of unrent
Example Sentences
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As yet they had been shielded by the forest which lay over the land like an unrent mantle.
From The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Roosevelt, Theodore
Daily had some loop fallen, which might have gone ravelling far enough; but daily was he there to pick it up again, and keep the web unrent and solidly progressive.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Carlyle, Thomas
A place in Valhal is promised to us; for, him who bravely dies with his blood-stained sword beside him and his heart unrent with fears, the All-Father's victory-wafters will gently carry home.
From The Story of Siegfried by Baldwin, James
And now, with canvas unrent, and masts unsprung, returned to the very buoy she left.
From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various
Thus ever may that flag unrent At peak and staff be borne, Nor e'er from mast or battlement By traitor hands be torn.
From Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown by Colles, Julia Keese
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