unhammered

You are undrilled, undisciplined, unhammered into shape.

Amateur Night 2010

The editor of the Intelligencer tells her, You are undrilled, undisciplined, unhammered into shape.

“. . .all his race rose up before him in a mighty phantasmagoria. . .” 2008

You are undrilled, undisciplined, unhammered into shape.

Amateur Night 1906

McClellan showed his customary over-caution in allowing Lee to escape unhammered; once more he was superseded, and once more his supersession only replaced inaction by disaster.

A History of the United States Cecil Chesterton 1898

Meade, General, defeats Lee at Gettysburg, 196; permits him to retire unhammered, 196

A History of the United States Cecil Chesterton 1898

In quarries they are thrown out, either by blasting or splitting in layers, so as to form regular courses when laid up; and all their varieties may, _unhammered_, except to strike off projecting points or angles, be laid up with a sufficiently smooth face to give fine effect to a building.

Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings Lewis Falley Allen 1845

The floor of the low and narrow hall is laid with planks hewn by the axe; the beams of the roof still wear the rugged bark with which they grew up in the forest; and the hearth is formed of one broad, unhammered stone, heaped with logs that roll their blaze and smoke up a chimney of wood and clay.

Biographical Sketches (From: "Fanshawe and Other Pieces") Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

During Hammett's stay, the newspapers reported how construction of a bank at 11th and Pacific Avenue stopped so abruptly, due to a financial scandal, that rivets in the steel beams were left unhammered, Sullivan said.

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