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He tells the story about his niece, notes her concern over getting the landscaping done, doesn't offer any example of his immediate family helping anyone (including his unturfed niece), then launches into the description of the five brother's service to America by working for his campaign.

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He was poor, it seemed, so poor that he had abandoned the white farmhouse and had come to live in a box-like, unpainted shack at the foot of the hill, the new boarding of which stood out harshly against the unturfed soil.

The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

The mound and ditch had all been unturfed; and the mound was daily dug down to the level, every spadeful being shaken loose; and now they came upon some few traces of human use.

Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

Here and there was an unturfed, bare hillock, marking a new grave, and that was the only mark it would have, for people who could afford anything more did not attend the chapel now.

Catharine Furze Mark Rutherford 1872

Resting thus on the hard unturfed gravel in the burning heat of the day I composed a martial ballad on the "Defeat of King

My Reminiscences Rabindranath Tagore 1901