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  • Bowed down with old age, uninured to the bearing of burdens.

    Satyricon 2007

  • There on the pavement these inexpert children of a pacific age, untrained in arms and uninured to violence, abandoned themselves to amateurish and absurd efforts to hurt and injure one another — of which the most palpable consequences were dusty backs, ruffled hair and torn and twisted collars.

    The History of Mr. Polly 2003

  • Bowed down with old age, uninured to the bearing of burdens.

    The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • The ranks of labour, depleted of its men, were filled by females uninured to toil and dangerous nerve racking environments.

    Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann

  • Bowed down with old age, uninured to the bearing of burdens.

    The Satyricon — Volume 04 : Escape by Sea 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • There on the pavement these inexpert children of a pacific age, untrained in arms and uninured to violence, abandoned themselves to amateurish and absurd efforts to hurt and injure one another -- of which the most palpable consequences were dusty backs, ruffled hair and torn and twisted collars.

    The History of Mr. Polly 1906

  • The enemies 'fleets could not join; no great fleet could get out, or if it did, it was only to meet at once, with uninured officers and crews, those who were veterans in gales and warfare.

    The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 1877

  • It is at least simple enough for the simplest of critics to apply or misapply: whenever they see or suspect an inequality or an incongruity which may be wholly imperceptible to eyes uninured to the use of their spectacles, they assume at once the presence of another workman, the intrusion of a stranger's hand.

    A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

  • Page 326 thicker than that of a hippopotamus, and a body to which fervid heat is a comfort rather than an annoyance, he droningly lounges over the prescribed task, on which the intrepid Englishman, unaccustomed and uninured to the burning sun, consumes his impatient energy, and too often sacrifices his life.

    Social relations in our Southern States, 1860

  • This impetuous and fiery temperament was rendered yet more fearful by the indulgence of every intemperance; it fed on wine and lust; its very virtues strengthened its vices, -- its courage stifled every whisper of prudence; its intellect, uninured to all discipline, taught it to disdain every obstacle to its desires.

    The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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