unbrace
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“But when you start opening things up, start demo-ing a little slab, you might unbrace a column, and that column has temporary shoring, or perhaps it’s only temporary braced and that’s less stable.”
From Slate • Mar. 24, 2020
How eager would her tender hands unbrace The ponderous armour from my war-worn limbs, And pluck the helmet which oppos'd her kiss!
From Percy A Tragedy by More, Hannah
Swifter than thought the wheels instinctive fly, Flame thro’ the vast of air, and reach the sky. l ’Twas Neptune’s charge his coursers to unbrace, And fix the car on its immortal base, &c.
From An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients by Jackson, Wallace
And to unbrace the bandages of state Is as clear air to incense-stifled souls.
From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas
What rules has he proposed totally to unbrace the slackened nerve; to shade the heavy eye of inattention; to give the smooth feature and the uncontracted muscle; or procure insensibility to the whole animal composition?
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Johnson, Samuel
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