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Examples
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A quick glimpse reassured the Rowan that his mind held no trace of any neglect, that he had fallen asleep unfelled.
The Rowan McCaffrey, Anne 1990
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He is the unfelled tree, not the timber framed into the ship of state or carved into ecclesiastic grace.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various
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Trees remained unfelled, the land untilled, while the men lay on the bare ground about the fort groaning and in misery.
This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Henrietta Elizabeth 1917
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The woods that remained unfelled on Little Folley were of no material use to the enemy, for, even had there been labor to remove them (which I never had), the formation of the ground being a series of ridges of sand hills formed a screen which hid the enemy's movements completely from us, and afforded all the concealment he could desire.
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Nor were land hunger and revenge the only motives that stirred them to aggression; meaner feelings were mixed with the greed for untilled prairie and unfelled forest, and the fierce longing for blood.
The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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This leaves the ground covered with seven stages of growth, the large trees remaining unfelled.
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The forests are unfelled, cultivation is yet in its infancy and only in patches; none but the rudest tenements, if any, for human dwellings exist; the lands unfenced, if opened, and every thing for shelter, for comfort and support must be begun.
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Lord of forests unfelled, and not a gleaner of fagots,
The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1844
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