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
God, that I have had even a day's peace wherein to lay him by his mother and his brothers; though He alone knows how long the beloved graves may remain unrifled.
From Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face by Charles Kingsley
Then also, where pines and laurels still root in the unrifled tombs, the skeleton feudal fortress, gutted as by an earthquake, alongside of the tower of Cæcilia Metella.
From Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Vernon Lee
Unless accident favored him, or some one more fortunate, the golden heart of the San Rafael hill would pulse unrifled forever.
From The Doomswoman An Historical Romance of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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