undecayed

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There Dr. Smith found his fish, rank but undecayed, on Trader Hunt's little ship.

From Time Magazine Archive

Everything looked new and undecayed, and even the order in which the objects were arranged suggested a tidying-up done that very morning.

From The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology by Weigall, Arthur E. P. B.

The flowers you gave, dear girl, will fade, Nor shun the common lot, to die; The thoughts they spoke, still undecayed, Shall bloom immortal as the sky.

From Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems by Bartley, James Avis

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 Wilson, F. N. (Frederick N.)

Yea, if all this by man were made, Strange was it that yet undecayed The food lay on the tables still Unchanged by man, that wine did fill The golden cups, yet bright and red.

From The Earthly Paradise A Poem by Morris, William