unrisen
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unrisen (not comparable)
- Not risen.
- 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 262:
- For to the North I saw the town on fire,
And its red light made morning pallid now, […]
And now the horsemen come—and all was done
Swifter than I have spoken—I beheld
Their red swords flash in the unrisen sun.
- 1909, Basil King, The Inner Shrine[1]:
- High above all else, the domes of the Sacred Heart were white with the rays of the unrisen sun, like those of the City which came down from God. It was so different from the cheerful Paris of broad daylight that she was drawing back with a shudder, when over the Pont de la Concorde she discerned the approach of a motor-brougham.
- 1918, May Sinclair, The Tree of Heaven[2]:
- It went now between long straight ramparts of hills that showed enormous and dark against a sky cleared to twilight by the unrisen moon.
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not risen
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