unhailed

Example Sentences

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When they had finished the stone became the man in black, who entreated piteously to be unnailed.

From The Diamond Fairy Book by Various

The battens, which for years had secured the windows of the rooms on the ground-floor, had been unnailed on one side, and hung down beside the open persiennes.

From Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field by Bazin, Ren?

It was in crossing an unnailed plank thrown across a drain-cutting.

From The Son of Clemenceau by Dumas fils, Alexandre

Nothing remained that was not unhooked, unnailed, cracked, wasted, warped, pierced with holes, destroyed: nothing hung together in the dreadful mass, but all was torn, dislocated, broken.

From Toilers of the Sea by Hugo, Victor

Upon the walls among the cankered and unnailed espaliers were niches for Madonnas and fragments of crucifixes; and vines hung there in ragged festoons to the ground.

From Home Life of Great Authors by Griswold, Hattie Tyng