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1545.  Test. Ebor. (Surtees), VI. 236. Where as I covenante withe hym … to leave hym lande in yerlie value xls … and have unpurchased xxs value of it.

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1608[?].  J. Reynard’s Deliv., in Harl. Misc. (1808), I. 187. Nor [is] any treasure of the earth … left unpurchased.

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1665.  Boyle, Occas. Refl., IV. iii. As she is rich in Natures bounty, [she] appear’d … satisfy’d with the unpurchas’d Treasures she possesses.

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1736.  Thomson, Liberty, V. 613. Justice, like the liberal light of Heaven, Unpurchas’d shines on all.

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1781.  Cowper, Hope, 343. But oh the strife,… and debate, The tidings of unpurchased heaven create!

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1831.  Scott, Ct. Rob., xxviii. Let him keep unpurchased the crown, for which he has paid … a price which it is not worth.

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1893.  F. Adams, New Egypt, 75. The poor unpurchased and, so far, unpolluted free-lance.

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