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Clare, she lies in peril of her life and honour, beleaguered by a rabble of unnurtured Welsh savages, who, lacking respect for beauty, have directed their arms against a woman.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 274, September 22, 1827 Various

In this day of emphasis on vocational training we must remember there is a part of life unfed, unnurtured, and unexercised by industrial education.

A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready

My father came, and her mother, an unnurtured, uncouth woman, who would have forced me to wed her on the spot, but my father would not hear of it, more especially as there were then two male heirs, so that I should not have gained her grim old Tower and bare moorlands.

Grisly Grisell Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Such colloquies have occupied many a pair of pale-faced weavers, whose unnurtured souls have been like young winged things, fluttering forsaken in the twilight.

Silas Marner (1885) 1861

Fine strapping girls they were, from five years old to fourteen, but rude and unnurtured as so many bears.

Roughing It in the Bush 1852

Such colloquies have occupied many a pair of pale-faced weavers, whose unnurtured souls have been like young winged things, fluttering forsaken in the twilight.

Silas Marner George Eliot 1849

Fine strapping girls they were, from five years old to fourteen, but rude and unnurtured as so many bears.

Roughing It in the Bush Susanna Moodie 1844

Never saw so unnurtured a cub — Knew no more what he ate than an infidel — I cursed him by my gods when I saw

Peveril of the Peak 1822

Hardy, loose, in some respects, and unnurtured as he was in others, the man had been steadily my friend.

Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale James Fenimore Cooper 1820

It was the fearful cry of Gertrude, which possessed even the influence to still the savage intentions of a set of beings so rude and so unnurtured as those whose passions had just been awakened into fierce activity.

The Red Rover James Fenimore Cooper 1820