unrent
Americanadjective
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Origin of unrent
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This obstacle, only partially destroyed, had been taken as a known range by the Boer marksmen, and so accurate therefore was their shooting that soon there was scarce a strand unrent by the bullets.
From History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government by Great Britain. War Office
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 Julia Keese Colles
But so swelled the heart within him as he cast the speech abroad, That the golden wall of the battle, the fence unrent by the sword.
From The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by William Morris
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 Theodore Roosevelt
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 James Baldwin
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