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  • The league's slow-play may be a strategy to show a lack of trepidation about an uncapped -- and unfloored -- 2010.

    Andrew Brandt: The NFL Changing Before Our Eyes? 2009

  • On the unfloored hut, she who had been nurtured amid the rich carpets and curtains of the mother-land, rocked her new-born babe, and complained not.

    Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler

  • The latter consisted of unfloored huts built of tarred felt and surrounded by mud only less bad than in the trenches.

    The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Geoffrey Keith Rose

  • The experience of a former winter prevented the error being made, at all events in theory, of leaving trenches unfloored and unrevetted, until winter, bringing its consequence of mud, arrived.

    The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Geoffrey Keith Rose

  • After seventy-eight years in this fair island, side by side, with the progress and improvements above referred to, there are still hundreds and hundreds of men and women who live like savages in unfloored huts, huddled together like beasts of the field, without regard to health or comfort.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 Various

  • Contay, where we climbed up to some unfloored huts in a wood.

    The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Geoffrey Keith Rose

  • "It's just an unfloored place under the roof -- no way out!"

    Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • But all the titanic steel structure above and the unfloored bottom-chords and girders of the outer, or extension, arm of the cantilever had been swept bare of snow by the winter gales and left glistening with the glaze of the last shower of sleet.

    Out of the Primitive Robert Ames Bennet 1912

  • As he advanced he looked about him with an anxious gaze, but it was at the unfloored substructure of the bridge, not at the awesome spectacle of the swift-flowing, ice-covered stream

    Out of the Primitive Robert Ames Bennet 1912

  • From this point the outer arm of the cantilever extended far out over the broad chasm of the strait, where, a hundred and fifty feet beneath its unfloored level, the broken ice from the upper lake crashed and thundered on its wild passage of the strait.

    Out of the Primitive Robert Ames Bennet 1912

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