unattempted

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In Vienna, Prof. Maximilian Langster, famed mesmerist, advertised that he would perform feats of hypnotism "hitherto unattempted."

From Time Magazine Archive

I would rather have left this thing unattempted than to have undertaken it in partnership with any man whom I felt I had to watch.

From Then I'll Come Back to You by Evans, Larry

I might go on here, and enter more at length into details of his personal character, but the task is too difficult a one, and is perhaps, after all, better left unattempted.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various

He certainly effected great things, but left much that he might have achieved totally unattempted.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

But the death of Stafford was too important a stroke of party to be left unattempted by any expedient, however extraordinary.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by Hume, David