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
We can go no further till we find an unrifled cairn burial answering to Homeric descriptions.
From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew
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 Kingsley, Charles
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
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