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In a row of unthinned carrots, none ever grows to full size.

From Time Magazine Archive

If any person think this thinning excessive, let him try two similar trees, and thin one as directed, and leave the other unthinned.

From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Beecher, Catharine Esther

They stood in the midst of an ancient wilderness, rank and compacted with the growth of a thousand years, unthinned and unreclaimed by a single stroke of the woodman's axe.

From Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore

If any person think this thinning excessive, let him try two similar trees, and thin one as directed and leave the other unthinned.

From American Woman's Home by Beecher, Catharine Esther

It lay between him and what he called the "first heavy growth;" that is, the primeval forest, unthinned by axe of man, which at certain points clothes the foot of Katahdin.

From Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods by Hornibrook, Isabel