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1656.  Cowley, Davideis, III. 12. A Sword whose weight without a blow might slay, Able unblunted to cut Hosts away.

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1775.  S. J. Pratt, Liberal Opin., lvi. (1783), II. 168. My feelings were, as yet, unblunted by habitual trespasses.

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1779.  Mirror, No. 67. While the warm feelings of benevolence remain unblunted by those artificial manners.

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1818.  Byron, Juan, XVI. cix. Anacreon only had the soul to tie an Unwithering myrtle round the unblunted dart Of Eros.

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1867.  Mrs. Whitney, L. Goldthwaite, viii. (1873), 127. The full white light of such unblunted day.

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a. 1894.  Stevenson, South Seas, II. ii. [I] woke again with an unblunted sense of my surroundings.

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