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1598. Florio, Incustodito, not kept, not looked vnto, vntended.
1732. Lyttelton, Progr. Love, i. 17. His flock … untended lay, To ev’ry savage a defenceless prey.
1736. Thomson, Liberty, V. 10. Let Asia’s woods, Untended, yield the vegetable fleece.
1794. Wordsw., Guilt & Sorrow, lxiii. Nor shall she perish there, untended and alone!
1807. J. Barlow, Columb., VI. 160. He comes … untended by his usual train.
1854. H. Miller, Sch. & Schm., xi. The hedges [were] gapped by the almost untended cattle.
1861. Peaks, Passes & Glac., Ser. II. I. 163. The same fitful glare from the pine-log fire, as the untended embers crumble together!
