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  • verb Present participle of unshade.

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Examples

  • In the same way -- by shading the panes or unshading them -- he governs the light admitted to the mushrooms.

    Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure William Falconer

  • They were a forest of giant oaks; but the all-restless hurricane has swept over them, and left only here and there a lonely trunk, despoiled of its verdure, shorn of its foliage, unshading and unshaded, to murmur in a few more gentle breezes, and to combat with its mutilated limbs a few more ruder storms, then to sink and be no more.

    The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843 Abraham Lincoln 1837

  • They were a forest of giant oaks; but the all-restless hurricane has swept over them, and left only here and there a lonely trunk, despoiled of its verdure, shorn of its foliage, unshading and unshaded, to murmur in a few more gentle breezes, and to combat with its mutilated limbs a few more ruder storms, then to sink and be no more.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Abraham Lincoln Writings Abraham Lincoln 1837

  • "They were a forest of giant oaks; but the all-resistless hurricane has swept over them, and left only here and there a lonely trunk, despoiled of its verdure, shorn of its foliage, unshading and unshaded, to murmur in a few more ruder storms, then to sink and be no more."

    Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections) Abraham Lincoln 1837

  • They _were_ a forest of giant oaks; but the all-restless hurricane has swept over them, and left only here and there a lonely trunk, despoiled of its verdure, shorn of its foliage, unshading and unshaded, to murmur in a few more gentle breezes, and to combat with its mutilated limbs a few more ruder storms, then to sink and be no more.

    Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections) Abraham Lincoln 1837

  • They were a forest of giant oaks; but the resistless hurricane has swept over them, and left only here and there a lonely trunk, despoiled of its verdure, shorn of its foliage, unshading and unshaded, to murmur in a few more gentle breezes, and to combat with its mutilated limbs a few more ruder storms, and then to sink and be no more.

    Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 Abraham Lincoln 1837

  • Feature: Add shading and unshading of windows [FS#2943] (r18588)

    Mac Game Files 2009

  • "They were a forest of giant oaks, but the all-resisting hurricane swept over them and left only here and there a lone trunk, despoiled of its verdure, shorn of its foliage, unshading and unshaded, to murmur in a few more gentle breezes and to combat with its mutilated limbs a few more rude storms, then to sink and be no more.

    Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller 1868

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