undecayed
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There Dr. Smith found his fish, rank but undecayed, on Trader Hunt's little ship.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The fluidity of the blood, the ruddiness, the suppleness of these vampires, ought not to surprise any one, any more than the growth of the nails and hair, and their bodies remaining undecayed.
From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Henry Christmas
And who has revealed to them that such a vampire is undecayed in his grave, that he is full of blood, that he in some measure lives there after his death?
From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Henry Christmas
Curiously enough, the heavier the standing timber, the easier it had been to slip through with wagons, there being but little undecayed timber or down timber.
From Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail by F. N. (Frederick N.) Wilson
Its branches were yet undecayed, and the parasites still clung to them in thick tufts, giving the whole the appearance of a mass of hay loosely thrown together.
From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Mayne Reid