Unkilled

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1535.  Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), I. 586. All his men … That levand war on lyfe that tyme vnkeild.

1547.  Homilies, I. Obedience, I. N i b. Take away Kynges, Princes, Rulers,… no man shall slepe in his awne house or bed vnkylled.

1608.  Yorksh. Trag., I. ix. 215. I repent now that one is left unkill’d; My brat at nurse.

1662.  Hibbert, Body Divinity, I. 197. If he see a snake unkilled, he fears a mischief.

1707.  Mortimer, Husb., 45. Leave no Weeds or Turfs of Grass unkilled or unbroke with your Harrows.

1802.  H. Martin, Helen of Glenross, I. 146. Scream ladies; for our pistols are fired, and we unkilled.

1842.  Thackeray, Sultan Stork, Wks. 1898, V. 738. Nor of the latter did there remain any unkilled (if I may coin such a word).

1901.  G. Douglas, Ho. w. Green Shutters, 264. I have let him get away unkilled.