[UN-1 8 b.] Not stung.
1615. Goddard, Neaste of Waspes, F iij. Why howe nowe Waspes, are you returnd agen? I knowe vnstung remaines a worlde of men And therefore once more out.
1807. Crabbe, Birth of Flattery, 147. Such was the fiend, and so secure of prey, That only Misery pass’d unstung away.
1816. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., xx. II. 203. Some of them flew after me; I escaped however unstung.
1864. ’Annie Thomas,’ D. Donne, III. 135. He knew too that the Bishop knew it also, and was unstung by the knowledge.
