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unshut



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ajar
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Some of the windows of the house were open, but with no more signs of life than in a dead man's unshut eyes.

From The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne

What is there more, that I lag and pause, and crouch extended with unshut         mouth?

From Poems By Walt Whitman by William Michael Rossetti

And what simpler words could there be than these, for example— “Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world, for ever and aye”?

From The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine by Charles William Daniel

Bearing these, she withdrew, throwing a spiteful glance and leaving the door unshut, so that her master distinctly heard her open Margaret's door, come out again, and finally leave the house.

From The Mark Of Cain by Andrew Lang

He died in 1817, and his epitaph is as follows:— His labor done, no more to town, His onward course he bends; His team’s unshut, his whip’s laid up, And here his journey ends.

From Curious Epitaphs by Various




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