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1601.  Shaks., Jul. C., I. iii. 18. His Hand, Not sensible of fire, remain’d vnscorch’d.

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1612.  Warner, Alb. Eng., XI. lxvii. 285. Thogh thou could’st buzze about the flame, & keepe vnskorcht thy wings.

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1651.  Stanley, Poems, Love Deposed, iv. We … unscorch’d may Like atoms play, And wanton in the sunshine of your eyes.

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1816.  Scott, Antiq., xviii. The moss and wild flowers were unscorched.

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1843.  Prescott, Mexico, II. iv. I. 247. From all these fiery trials … he came out unscorched.

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1856.  Froude, Hist. Eng., ix. II. 345. If he threw them [sc. toads] into the fire, they hopped back to him unscorched.

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