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- adjective Without
shoring .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There are enough supporters who will say they won't back his play, then when the pressure is turned up cave in like an unshored mine tunnel.
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There are enough supporters who will say they won't back his play, then when the pressure is turned up cave in like an unshored mine tunnel.
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Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored harborless immensities.
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Whenever the unshored pit caves in the accident has been caused by evil-minded ghosts, the kobolds of Germany, in which Cornwall till lately believed.
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored harborless immensities.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harborless immensities.
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