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
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)
Not a desk or a drawer was left unrifled, not an article of furniture unmoved.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram
But at the Clipstone extremity of the forest, a remnant of its ancient woodlands remains, unrifled, except of its deer—a specimen of what the whole once was, and a specimen of consummate beauty and interest.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon
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