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
Untrodden by me, the Forum shall still echo with the footfall of imperial Rome, and the Parthenon unrifled of its marbles, look, perfect, across the Egean blue.
From Prue and I by Curtis, George William
Within each living man there doth reside, In some unrifled chamber of the heart, A hidden treasure: wayward as thou art I love thee, man, and bind thee to my side!
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George
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)
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