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But it is a pleasing reminder that some parts of this country are still unwrecked.

From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2012

The train came to a standstill, the coupling between the wrecked and the unwrecked portions remaining intact.

From Down Under With the Prince by Duncan, Sara Jeannette

We looked in, doubting, and saw at least a hundred folk, mostly women, who knelt before the altar of an unwrecked chapel.

From France at War On the Frontier of Civilization by Kipling, Rudyard

Nor is it often tough-fibred enough to weather the stress of the first years of married life; and come through the equinoctials of the inevitable adjustment unshattered and unwrecked.

From The Genius by Potter, Margaret Horton

But Joe and Blake pulled it back on the unwrecked portion of the bridge approach.

From The Moving Picture Boys at Panama Stirring Adventures Along the Great Canal by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]