a. (UN-1 7.)
1596. Spenser, F. Q., VI. vi. 40. Were not, that the Prince did him appeaze, He had not left one limbe of him vnrent.
1727. Pope, etc., Art of Sinking, 102. Distended with the waters in ’em pent, The clouds hang deep in air, but hang unrent.
1796. Burke, Lett. Noble Lord, Wks. VIII. 21. These obscene harpies … leave nothing unrent, unrifled.
1816. Byron, Siege of Cor., xxxiii. The hills that shake, although unrent.
1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., V. V. I. 577. Daily had some loop fallen,… but daily was he there to pick it up again, and keep the web unrent.
1879. R. T. Smith, Basil Gt., ix. 113. The garment without seam … preserved unrent even by the soldiers.
