unhooked
Example Sentences
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Unhooked, they fall flat, revealing a mound of rice larded with ground pork and stained purple-black: the color of pork blood, its metallic scent softened by a squeeze of smashed lemongrass.
From New York Times • May 10, 2018
And slowly Arose the sea-land lord, Like some vast beast for mystery, He filled the room and porch and sky, And from a cobwebbed nail on high Unhooked his heavy sword.
From The Ballad of the White Horse by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
Then Alfred, prince of England, And all the Christian earls, Unhooked their swords and held them up, Each offered to Colan, like a cup Of chrysolite and pearls.
From The Ballad of the White Horse by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
