undug

• “Twinn believes that hidden in the soil below is an extensive Roman ritual and domestic site, still largely unknown and undug, which is why the precise location of our walk must remain top secret.”

  Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph

• “The harvest petered out, the woman never appeared, but the Bohemian farmers, as they had done since Alobar could remember, left a few acres of beets undug so that they might complete their cycle and provide the seed for next year's crop.”

  Fictionaut: La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth

• “I ask, the spot having been both undug and unprotected by signs for at least 30 years.”

  Archive 2007-03-18

• “He had never excavated another site, but as the ancient mound languished on the Konya Plain, undug and neglected, Mellaart had done everything he could to keep its memory—and his own reputation—alive.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Goddess and the Bull

• “And thus places that are dug open flow by that pressure, and afford the more water (as the breasts of women do milk by their being sucked), the vapor thus moistening and becoming fluid; whereas ground that remains idle and undug is not capable of producing any water, whilst it wants that motion which is the cause of liquefaction.”

  The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans

• “He broiled two for his dinner, toasted another huge tuber and then undug his egg, arranging it in its carrying shell with plenty of warm sand.”

  Dragon Drums

• “She stood a long time bent over a potato hill, unable to see the spading fork, the undug potatoes forgotten.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Dollmaker

• “But there were no fresh stains on that wall this morning, and the graves remained undug, though here and there were seen the first marks of spades where the wretched victims had begun to dig.”

  Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs

• “When the disease appeared, the people who held conacres threw them up, and the potatoes remained undug.”

  The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines

• “The crops were deficient, especially the potato crop, much of which was left undug until the ensuing spring, partly on account of the inclement weather, partly because it was not worth the labour.”

  The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines

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