undelved
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undelved (not comparable)
- Not delved or dug.
- 1592, Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy:
- Why, all the undelved mines cannot buy An ounce of justice,
- 2000, Robert Wintner, The Modern Outlaws: A Road Saga, →ISBN, page 34:
- She looks worried that undelved depths of silly shit do exist, but she relents, because a tip is at stake and we profile loose with gratitude.
- 2009, Peter Pierce, The Cambridge History of Australian Literature, →ISBN, page 122:
- Welcome, ye wild plains Unbroken by the plough, undelved by hand Of patient rustic; where for lowing herds, And for the music of the bleating flocks, Alone is heard the kangaroo's sad note, Deepening in distance.