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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

It irritated me; in a way, it made me responsible for the deaths of those unrescued hundreds among the passengers and crew, and I didn't like the thought.

From The Worlds of If by Weinbaum, Stanley Grauman

Perhaps the same stern fidelity to a stern promise was the reason why Lady Glamis was allowed to go to the stake unrescued.

From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by Reid, George

It was better so than to have been left alive unrescued.

From Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers by Andrew, Elizabeth Wheeler

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