undecayed

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There Dr. Smith found his fish, rank but undecayed, on Trader Hunt's little ship.

From Time Magazine Archive

The fluidity of the blood, the ruddiness, the suppleness of these vampires, ought not to surprise any one, any more than the growth of the nails and hair, and their bodies remaining undecayed.

From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Christmas, Henry

Its branches were yet undecayed, and the parasites still clung to them in thick tufts, giving the whole the appearance of a mass of hay loosely thrown together.

From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Reid, Mayne

And who has revealed to them that such a vampire is undecayed in his grave, that he is full of blood, that he in some measure lives there after his death?

From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Christmas, Henry

His strength is in his one great fact,—that these cities are older than any known to profane history, and that they yet exist undecayed and undecaying.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various