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  • The low ceiling, the unplastered walls, the naked wood-work, and the undraperied pulpit, offered nothing to excite the devotion, which, without such external aids, often remains latent in the heart.

    The Gentle Boy : 1839

  • Nymphs and deities undraperied have few worshippers in England amongst the buyers of "furniture pictures."

    Lucretia — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Nymphs and deities undraperied have few worshippers in England amongst the buyers of "furniture pictures."

    Lucretia — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • The low ceiling, the unplastered walls, the naked wood work, and the undraperied pulpit, offered nothing to excite the devotion, which, without such external aids, often remains latent in the heart.

    The Gentle Boy 1837

  • So, through the undraperied hollow square of the hall and staircase every sound ascended clear and distinct; and

    Wives and Daughters Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • The low ceiling, the unplastered walls, the naked woodwork and the undraperied pulpit offered nothing to excite the devotion which without such external aids often remains latent in the heart.

    Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • I was so thoroughly tired when I returned from all these visits, that I was forced to rest upon a bed for the remainder of the day, to my no small discomposure before the evening was closed; for, in a close cap, my feet in their native, undraperied state, hidden by a large, long, wrapping morning

    The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 Fanny Burney 1796

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