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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
unpinion .
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Examples
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So without losing time he caused his sister to be unpinioned, and Nuzhat al-Zaman came up to him and kissed his hands, whilst her eves ran over with tears.
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They arrived on the ground pinioned; their sentence was read to them and Valenzuela was unpinioned for
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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While this portion of the meal was under discussion their minds moved free, unpinioned, with airy lightness, over all manner of topics.
Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923
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As his eyes became accustomed to the dim light of the interior, he realized that the elderly man seemed to be resisting the efforts of the other who knelt upon his unpinioned arm.
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Winged his dark way through those unpinioned spheres,
Fiat Lux 1917
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But the friar was persistent and patient, and in the end the last knot ran loose, and our cocassier was unpinioned.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Near at hand, and also under guard, but unpinioned, mademoiselle his sister sat hunched upon a hillock of sand.
Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Winged his dark way through those unpinioned spheres,
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One by one the battered and rickety wagons jolted by; then came the bloody and dishevelled soldiery plodding with shouldered muskets through the lanes of excited warriors, scarcely letting their haggard eyes rest on the two prisoners who stood, unpinioned in the front rank.
The Hidden Children 1899
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I asked him if he could not let me go unpinioned, for it was ignoble to go to ones death tied like a beast.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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