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In about twenty minutes the square unembattled tower of
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Nobody sneered that Teddy Roosevelt, glorious hero of the Battle of San Juan Hill, had missed the fight entirely by getting lost, and watched the whole thing from a nearby but unembattled hill.
WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories Holland, Barbara 1999
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Protected though the passage to their operational area was by the strongholds of 3 RCR and the Vandoos, the approach by the RCD Battle Group was conducted as if it were an advance to contact in a void between unembattled forces.
First Clash Macksey, Kenneth 1984
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In about twenty minutes the square unembattled tower of Knollsea Church appeared below them in the vale, its summit just touching the distant line of sea upon sky.
The Hand of Ethelberta Thomas Hardy 1884
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And they'll have considered the spectre of an unembattled Iran on Afghanistan's border, free to indulge its natural hostility to the Taliban even as, post-Musharraf, al Qaeda's Pakistan sanctuary becomes less secure.
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And they'll have considered the spectre of an unembattled Iran on Afghanistan's border, free to indulge its natural hostility to the Taliban even as, post-Musharraf, al Qaeda's Pakistan sanctuary becomes less secure.
Stabroek News 2008
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