unrifled
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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After extricating the animals, searchers found a series of unknown, unrifled tombs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even for a crack shot, an unrifled, early seventeenth-century gun had fewer advantages over a longbow than may be supposed.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Not a desk or a drawer was left unrifled, not an article of furniture unmoved.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram
I will part with it only on this condition, that if there bee nothinge in it which concernes them, the rest may returne to mee unrifled and untutcht.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
The diamond pin was in his scarf, and his pocket-book in his pocket, unrifled.
From The Son of My Friend by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
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