undecayed

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Curiously enough, the heavier the standing timber, the easier it had been to slip through with wagons, there being but little undecayed timber or down timber.

From Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail by Wilson, F. N. (Frederick N.)

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

Nevertheless, each hut would have been a reasonably strong post, on an emergency; the logs being bullet-proof, and still remaining undecayed and compact.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore

The flesh of these persons was entire and undecayed, of a brown dryish colour, produced by time, the flesh having adhered closely to the bones and sinews.

From Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 3-46 by Holmes, William Henry