inviolate

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Oft didst thou watch them prowl among the tombs Inviolate of the patient dead, toiling In deeds obscure with stealthy ecstasy, And thou didst palely peer among them, and Expressly shine into their unhinged eyes!

From Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets by Eastman, Max

And so it seem'd The gathering was complete; the appointed number Laid in the sleeping chamber, and seal'd up Inviolate till the great gathering day.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 by Various

Above the petty passions of the crowd I stand in frozen marble like a god, Inviolate, and ancient as the moon.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various

And that which neuer any bare before, Inviolate, Holy, Consecrate, Vntucht.

From The Tragedy Of Caesar's Revenge by Anonymous

Why shouldst thou laden bow, And climb, and slip, and toil, And blanch thy cheek to keep thy soul as white, Inviolate as now?

From Path Flower and Other Verses by Dargan, Olive Tilford