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- adjective Not
ransomed .
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Examples
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Yves had pursued his quest alone since the fall of Faringdon had cast his friend into limbo, unransomed, unlisted, God knew where.
A River So Long 2010
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His voice baulked there, trying not to sound as if he wished her father dead, one obstacle out of the way from between them, and himself still a prisoner, unransomed.
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This is not a privilege which she can forgo, lest she be taken into captivity and remain unransomed.
Legal-Religious Status of the Married Woman. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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Most of those taken go unransomed, are beaten, bloodied, broken and are sold and resold from Algiers to Egypt, Ethiopia, Arabia, and Turkey.lxxxix
Islam's War to Save the World Lionheart 2001
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Most of those taken go unransomed, are beaten, bloodied, broken and are sold and resold from Algiers to Egypt, Ethiopia, Arabia, and Turkey.lxxxix
Archive 2001-01-01 Lionheart 2001
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Yves had pursued his quest alone since the fall of Faringdon had cast his friend into limbo, unransomed, unlisted, God knew where.
Brother Cadfael's Penance Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1994
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Soon after dark, however, some of the enemy [5] were discovered creeping up the banks of a nulla at the back of the camp, where the unransomed men were detained under
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts
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It was he who, as Thaukt, the Hag, had given Hela the power to keep Baldur unransomed.
The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths Padraic Colum 1926
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A stream of returning knights, of wounded soldiers, and of unransomed French noblemen, had been for a quarter of a century continually pouring into England, every one of whom exerted an influence in the direction of greater domestic refinement, while shiploads of French furniture from Calais,
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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A stream of returning knights, of wounded soldiers, and of unransomed French noblemen, had been for a quarter of a century continually pouring into England, every one of whom exerted an influence in the direction of greater domestic refinement, while shiploads of French furniture from Calais,
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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