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Examples
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The mouth of the passage is guarded by a kind of ridge of basalt, which at high tide we knew was barely covered with sufficient water to float the “Chancellor,” even when entirely unfreighted.
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He found hypnosis relaxing, a pleasant, unfreighted interlude.
Incubus Arensberg, Ann, 1937- 1999
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The mouth of the passage is guarded by a kind of ridge of basalt, which at high tide we knew was barely covered with sufficient water to float the Chancellor, even when entirely unfreighted.
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But the _Alaska_ is a sheer hulk, and her once jovial crew scattered hither and yon; he alone, in the solitude of these unfreighted waters, remains to tell the tale.
Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska Charles Warren Stoddard 1876
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We sat down with father and mother, and as we all had much to say, there were not many seconds that escaped unfreighted with a word.
Sea-Gift. A Novel. Edwin Wiley 1873
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The mouth of the passage is guarded by a kind of ridge of basalt, which at high tide we knew was barely covered with sufficient water to float the "Chancellor," even when entirely unfreighted.
The Survivors of the Chancellor, diary of J.R. Kazallon, passenger Jules Verne 1866
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An unfreighted canoe, paddled down the stream by a colored man, and a larger boat which a youngster was pushing to the shore, assisted by two lads tugging at a line, was the only navigation observable.
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When unfreighted on the opposite shore, every thing would be as dry as when embarked.
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Ah! me, I wonder not that the hours fly so sweetly by me -- for they pass unfreighted with the duties which they came to demand!
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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It needed nothing of great interest to draw aside passengers unfreighted with a purpose, and Tito was preparing to turn aside into an adjoining street, when, amidst the loud laughter, his ear discerned a distressed childish voice crying, "Loose me!
Romola George Eliot 1849
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