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Rather it was like the closing of a whirlpool over the unrescued heads of a vast shipwreck's bravest stay-behinds.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bold Buccleugh, who carried Kinmont Willie out of Carlisle Castle, would not have left the Maid unrescued at Beaulieu.

From The Red True Story Book by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)

She leaned toward her cow-puncher with bright eyes searching his; with elbow on knee and hand propping chin, her lap became a slant, and from it Browning the poet slid and toppled, and lay unrescued.

From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Wister, Owen

Had she been frozen in then, ten miles to the east of Southeast Cape, the expedition would have been frustrated and the whalers left unrescued.

From The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis

With the princess of Videha unrescued, and the foe unslain in battle, I dare not live, robbed of wife and honour!'

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan