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They were new people -- unharrowed and uncultured like the land they lived on -- but they were earnest and honest and strong.
Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis
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We called her, and a few still call her, a young country, because her forest trees are of immemorial age and her undisturbed rocks and unharrowed prairies are as they may have looked in the first light that gave day to the world.
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I lay fallow beneath the still, sunlit waters, unharrowed by teasing points of doubt, and porous to the influence of an all-encompassing peace.
Apologia Diffidentis 1905
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If no new visitor came they fell to chatting and smoking, but the sight of a fresh and unharrowed person started them off again in their mechanical, though nerve-racking, cry.
White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900
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Then, if I found a fair amount of vegetable matter, I would give it a dressing of air-slaked lime, and plow it deeply late in the fall, leaving it unharrowed so as to expose as much of the soil as possible to the action of frost.
Success with Small Fruits Edward Payson Roe 1863
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Chichikov should figure before the reader as though his form and person were actually present to the eye as that, on concluding a perusal of this work, the reader should be able to return, unharrowed in soul, to that cult of the card-table which is the solace and delight of all good Russians.
Dead Souls 1842
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