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1649.  J. Arnway, Tablet, 33. To avoide the next storme which His unrecreuted Armie might not encounter.

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a. 1661.  Fuller, Worthies, Cheshire, I. (1662), 187. Had the Royalists pursued this Single Enemy, (as yet unrecruited with additional strength,) they had finally worsted him.

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1712.  Blackmore, Creation, V. 240. By unrecruited waste … His glorious stock long since had been consum’d.

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1859.  Macm. Mag., IV. 47. Lest the ranks of the ministry should be unrecruited by candidates from this first class of intelligence.

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1891.  E. Kinglake, Australians at Home, 107. The ranks of larrikins do not go unrecruited from among the sons of the more respectable poor.

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