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Heap o' 'omans would 'a' been afeerd to marry a man wid a unsunk grave on his hands—'feerd she'd ha'nt her.

From Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches by Stuart, Ruth McEnery

The size of the nail holes remains still like that of the Huns; but the unsunk southern nail heads yet serve to improve the hold on the ground.

From Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 by Various

The Sinking Fund's unfathomable sea, That most unliquidating liquid, leaves The debt unsunk, yet sinks all it receives.

From Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

However, relief came at last, on that never-to-be-forgotten morning when Sir David Beatty and his admirals accepted the unconditional surrender of the German fleet and its unsunk submarines.

From Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships by Domville-Fife, Charles W. (Charles William)

If History, driven upon Dismal Swamp with its horrors and perils, can get across unsunk, she will be lucky!

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Carlyle, Thomas