Example Sentences

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It is at length recovered, though in a ruinous condition; fortunately, however, with the written leaves untorn.

From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Reid, Mayne

Those qualities could no more live amid the clashings of indiscriminate human passions than a butterfly wing could go between the mill rollers untorn.

From The Delicious Vice by Allison, Young Ewing

He steered his middle course with sails spotless and untorn.

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Fuller, Margaret

There remains untorn by the idolater no more than the breadth of my fingernail.'

From Kim by Kipling, Rudyard

The8 film actress sensed the same competent strength in the brown, untorn hand that assisted her to rise to her feet.

From Steve Yeager by Raine, William MacLeod