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Examples
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Bloom ungyved his crisscrossed hands and with slack fingers plucked the slender catgut thong.
Ulysses 2003
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Bloom ungyved his crisscrossed hands and with slack fingers plucked the slender catgut thong.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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They looked from their thresholds upon the flying train, with their hair unbraided and their garters ungyved, -- not a negro left to till the fields, nor a son or brother who had not travelled to the wars.
Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War George Alfred Townsend 1877
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Annihilation of Self (_Selbst-tödtung_), had been happily accomplished; and my mind's eyes were now unsealed, and its hands ungyved. '
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Fronting the dawn of a grander day, her hand ungyved and her brain unfettered; with broader opportunities for usefulness and boasting a nobler beauty than during the dark and dreary centuries that lie behind her like a hideous dream -- such is the woman of the Nineteenth century, and upon the shapely shoulders of this new Pallas I hang my second Providence, to her loving hands I commit the destiny of the race, to her true heart the salvation of the world.
bilby commented on the word ungyved
I envy him the ungyved prance
With which his freezing feet he warms,
And drag my lady's-chains and dance
The galley-slave of dreary forms.
- James Russell Lowell, 'Without and Within'.
September 16, 2009