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And Chambersburg unransomed In smouldering ruins slept, While up the vale, like a fiery gale, The Rebel raiders swept.

From Our Boys Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors by Various

Shame to his friends!—the king remains Two years unransomed and in chains.

From With Spurs of Gold Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds by Greene, Frances Nimmo

It may be that many of our faith still lie unransomed in Jerusalem.

From The Brethren by Haggard, Henry Rider

The King gave him gifts and set him free unransomed.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Johnson, Rossiter

But other writers affirm, and apparently with truth, that William immediately transmitted the body, unransomed, to the bereaved parent, who had it interred in the monastery of Waltham.

From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883