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  • Cawdor-Jones, unsacked from his managership, smiled gently at the memory of the past few days.

    The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

  • A wall of wood, which alone shall abide unsacked by the foemen;

    A Historian For Our Time 2007

  • A wall of wood, which alone shall abide unsacked by the foemen;

    A Historian For Our Time 2007

  • Still, as the still unsacked Caroline Spelman both links to Beau Bo D'Or confirms the Tories are ready for a Spring Election.

    Nanny Spelman: Tories Laying Off Staff Ready For Battle 2008

  • And a tobacco magnate in number 11, an oil magnate down at trade, housing and development and health magnates in other cabinet chairs, and the still unsacked Nanny Spelman presumably in charge of propriety and/or justice.

    Iain Dale: Ken Clarke Should be Cameron's Chancellor 2008

  • Cawdor-Jones, unsacked from his managership, smiled gently at the memory of the past few days.

    Field Of Thirteen Francis, Dick 1998

  • "It must be Mord's meaning," says Flosi, "that ye will visit your wives; and my guess is, that his plan is to let your houses stand unsacked; but my plan is that not a man shall part from the other, but all ride east with me."

    The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown

  • Greeks through their inborn valor and knowledge of military affairs, who are the only ones who live unsacked, without walls, with no factions, unconquerable, with no change of customs.

    The Orations of Lysias 440? BC-380 BC Lysias

  • Entering his principality to reign as queen, while his manhood was yet an unsacked stronghold, she was of the character and determination to steer him in the way of uprightness to the end.

    Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

  • Beorhtwulf, king of the Mercians, and before them lay but one great town, Winchester, unsacked.

    Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

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