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  • France; for who was it during two years that had lived on other terms than under Robespierre's permission? and deeply must he internally have regretted the clemency, as he might term it, which had left so many with ungashed throats to bay at him.

    Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

  • At least, her decks were not marred, her rails were ungashed with the wear of lines, and even her fenders were almost shop-new.

    Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod James A. Cooper 1917

  • Here along the rim of the shallow basin, each behind the bloated and stiffening carcass of his horse, -- each surrounded by threescore copper shells, showing that he had fought till hope and ammunition both were gone, -- lay the poor remains of the gallant boys who had ridden silently away in obedience to their orders on the previous afternoon, -- recognizable now only by their teeth or some still ungashed body mark.

    Under Fire Charles King 1888

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