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But more than anything, it is Falstaff’s relish for language — his unstemmed and unstemmable gift for elaborate prevarication, for colorful excoriation, for creative ingratiation — that Mr. Sher brings to buoyant life.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2014

The billows thus unstemmed, 'twas Caesar's will To hew the stately forests and with trees Enchained to form a rampart.

From Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan

Quick over Madison's face surged the red in an unstemmed tide—volcanic within him his love that he knew now possessed his very soul, jealousy that, blinding, robbed him of his senses, roused him to frenzy.

From The Miracle Man by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)

Drawing Willits from the room her questions burst forth in their unstemmed torrent.

From Up the Hill and Over by Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

The fire was extinguished almost as rapidly as it began, but the torrent of Mrs. Clancy's eloquence was still unstemmed.

From The Deserter by King, Charles