unmoistened

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There was not a heart untouched—not a cheek unmoistened by the falling tear.

From Memoirs of General Lafayette : with an Account of His Visit to America and His Reception By the People of the United States; From His Arrival, August 15th, to the Celebration at Yorktown, October 19th, 1824. by Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de

And this theory is to be swallowed in one solid and indigestible lump, unleavened with logic, unmoistened with grammar, unsweetened with rhetoric.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 by Various

Nay, dry up—Daughter of our Age, dry up thy tears! and we shall set a vision before thine eyes to fill them with unmoistened light.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

She had stared at him, at the stewardess, at the walls, with abstracted, vacant, and bewildered, but always undimmed and unmoistened eyes.

From A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories by Harte, Bret

He is a hard-hearted churl who can read with unmoistened eyes this journal of a brave and talented girl.

From Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists by Dickinson, Asa Don