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For there is an old legend that the Druids decorated dwelling places with Ivy and holly during the winter, 'that the sylvan spirits might repair to them, and remain unnipped with frost and cold winds, until a milder season had renewed the foliage of their darling abodes.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Mouse for some time being afraid to venture out, the Lion remained with his hair unnipped.

The Talking Beasts Various 1896

Though its glory was decidedly on the wane, it was as yet unnipped by the frost It had a neatness and an order of its own that were quite unlike those where nature is in entire subordination to art.

Opening a Chestnut Burr Edward Payson Roe 1863

In such a world as spring and summer make, heart can dispense with heart; the sun is there, and the "flowers unnipped"; but in winter, freezing in the crypt, the heart cries: "Why should I freeze?

Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne