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"Sweet girl, kind and gentle. Unsay one name and say another and cast this mad dream aside."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

"Unsay, take back, those angry words," I said; and even as I did so the anchor went splash and I could hear the telegraph jingle in the engine-room.

From Love, the Fiddler by Osbourne, Lloyd

Nevertheless, he would not believe her, but said again, passionately, "Unsay your words, Leam: they offend me."

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 by Various

"Unsay those words, hag of evil omen!" he roared.

From B. C. 30,000 by Meek, S. P. (Sterner St. Paul)

Unsay, un-sā′, v.t. to recall what has been said: to retract.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various