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Henry James dismissed "Cymbeline" as "a florid fairy-tale, of a construction so loose and unpropped that it can scarce be said to stand upright at all," and it's true that most productions fail to weave the play's variegated strands into a convincing fabric.

Mark Twain Tonight (Sort Of) 2007

To begin with, the speed at which the coal is now extracted means that for hours at a time a dangerously large stretch of roof remains unpropped.

The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

Emma, unpropped, enters the carriage that will take her away from Box Hill.

Leaving Box Hill: Emma and Theatricality 2000

It is, however, a plant of the author's own raising, unpropped, unpruned, with none of the delicate tendrils or graceful festoons of the trellissed vine; yet he flatters himself that its roots are watered by the springs of truth, and hopes that he who is in quest of _that_, will not find, amidst its many clusters, any fruit to set his teeth on edge.

Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence T. Bassnett

To begin with, the speed at which the coal is now extracted means that for hours at a time a dangerously large stretch of roof remains unpropped.

The Road to Wigan Pier 1937

Hogarth found him kneeling, said "Get up", and O'Hara stood, leaning upon the rail, too faint to stand unpropped, Hogarth contemplating him, tapping the toes.

The Lord of the Sea 1906

In order that these may not cave in, they are propped up with stakes and boards; for otherwise, inasmuch as the dirt is so loose, they would not remain at all secure, as has happened to those unpropped, since we saw some that were blocked up and caved in.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 1621-1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. James Alexander Robertson 1906

At the top he paused, broad shouldered, narrow hipped and supple, looking at the large bed, like a white couch of state, with a profusion of snowy linen, amongst which the Padrona sat unpropped and bowed, her handsome, black-browed face bent over her chest.

Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

"No," said Mrs. Martha; and the serious assertion had all the more effect because it stood alone, unpropped by a single reason.

What Necessity Knows Lily Dougall 1890

At the top he paused, broad shouldered, narrow hipped and supple, looking at the large bed, like a white couch of state, with a profusion of snowy linen, amongst which the Padrona sat unpropped and bowed, her handsome, black-browed face bent over her chest.

Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard Joseph Conrad 1890