unrifled
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Even for a crack shot, an unrifled, early seventeenth-century gun had fewer advantages over a longbow than may be supposed.
From Literature
Not a desk or a drawer was left unrifled, not an article of furniture unmoved.
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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.
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On the whole, thought Talbot, glancing towards the great peak whose wilderness was still unrifled, that was the happiest night of his life.
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Paul III., about the middle of the eighth century, took many bones and much ashes from graves yet unrifled, and distributed them to the churches.
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