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Similarly untempted by the secular market, King retired to raise her 15 children.

From New York Times • May 23, 2023

"Thus richer than untempted kings are we," writes Lovelace in his poem in praise of the grasshopper, "That, asking nothing, nothing need."

From The Guardian • Aug. 1, 2010

Pile up the bricks of our sins till the tower knocks at Heaven's gate, calling for vengeance, yet we are great—with a greatness and a virtue that the untempted angels may not reach to.

From Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

His fundamental conception of the world was essentially mediaeval, his ideal was that of cloistered innocence or, still better, the innocence of untempted and untried infancy.

From Lectures and Essays by Smith, Goldwin

He had seen more, for the human face expressive of absolute, even though brief, mastery over evil is a nobler object than can be the serene visage of a sinless and untempted angel.

From A Face Illumined by Roe, Edward Payson