unmutilated

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He sets young Hubert's struggle to stay unmutilated against a background of intriguing conjectures and sly jokes.

From Time Magazine Archive

They choose a boy young enough to be certain that he is innocent of any impurity; they place him on an unmutilated horse, which has never stumbled, and is absolutely black.

From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Christmas, Henry

They are rarely found unmutilated, but there is one in perfect condition in the north porch of Thornham Church, Kent; and a rather elaborate example at Pylle Church, near Glastonbury.

From Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them by Heath, Sidney

His system of indexing was so precise that he could lay an instant finger on any fact of which he was in search, and nobody who ventured to impugn his facts escaped from him unmutilated.

From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie

Again, I took an unmutilated male, which at once turned and crawled toward the chirruping female.

From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by Weir, James