Pull back to reveal: a wild, unpruned lemon grove.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2007 Hollywood Portfolio: Killers Kill, Dead Men Die] Reference

Unshorn was their hair, and unpruned were their nails.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference

Trees had gone unpruned and winter-wind damage unrepaired.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mad Ship]

Hence, pruned trees would be smaller than similar unpruned trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951] Reference

Thorns from overgrown and unpruned rosebushes tore at Jake's clothes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wizard and Glass]

So the trees grew unpruned, the weeds rose higher and the fruit fell like rain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gardens: Apple glut] Reference

Hence, unpruned trees come into bearing earlier than even lightly pruned trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951] Reference

She threw Morwen a slow blink of affection and disappeared into the unpruned hedge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Calling On Dragons]

The height, up to ten feet unpruned, adds great vertical interest to the shrub border.    From Wordnik.com.  [Butterfly Bush Standards « Fairegarden] Reference

He waited in the dark shadow of the roses that grew unpruned about the lattice shelter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Regiment]

As long as shrubco goes unpruned the devistation of democracy will continue for decades!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » A Progressive Exit Strategy] Reference

Tools have even been found on the property, buried under layers of unpruned privet hedge.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Hoes Here « Fairegarden] Reference

The little weeping maples will never be very large, maybe 10 to 12 feet if left unpruned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make That Cut-Pruning The Laceleaf Maples « Fairegarden] Reference

Tall grass grew in the walks, and the huge unpruned shrubs disputed the passage with you.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference

Their form is so formal, compared to the blousy dogwood, rosemary and unpruned blue stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Before and After, Garage Side « Fairegarden] Reference

Cunninghams at Dalswinton, and was forcibly struck with Allan's luxuriant though unpruned fancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

'I don't know what imagination is,' says Letty Fox, 'if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Luck of Letty Fox] Reference

Ps...never mind grammar.....unpruned thoughts are better said without the constraints of formality!.    From Wordnik.com.  [rencontre - French Word-A-Day] Reference

Ps ... never mind grammar ..... unpruned thoughts are better said without the constraints of formality!.    From Wordnik.com.  [rencontre - French Word-A-Day] Reference

Trees continued to grow, and, unpruned, they arched over the sidewalks, nudging cement with timid roots.    From Wordnik.com.  [365 tomorrows » 2005 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference

Only four percent of the unpruned check trees developed similar symptoms during the same period of time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951] Reference

Its lawn ran to an apple orchard unpruned and gone wild, then to a fringe of willows and on down to a beach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gorky Park]

Mingled grass and corn grew in her plains, the unpruned vines threw their luxuriant branches around the elms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Man] Reference

A thickly growing, unpruned pyracanthas, lethal with thorns, belled out between the drawing room and the library.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox Evil]

I wound my slow way through the maze of unpruned growth and felt at one with things there and inexpressibly happy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Longshot]

The wood, however, was pitch black, thick with unpruned trees; I bent double and dived deeper into its gloomy belly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Border Ghost Stories] Reference

One fruit from that unpruned tree: do we have a word in English that means "the anniversary of a tragic or negative event"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [for me, sleep is inversely proportional to random thoughts.] Reference

Imagine what would happen if this tree had been left unpruned, the flowers would be dragging on the ground, if not broken off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pee Gee Hydrangea Standards « Fairegarden] Reference

That's the house where I grew up, with the chain link fence, powerlines overhead and an abundance of unpruned weeds in the lot nextdoor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yellow House and The Gold Medal Show] Reference

I do not know why, except that all things go unpruned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Roll] Reference

Bill called him an old fool, used unpruned language, scolded, rather than argued.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lahoma] Reference

We could trace the family history many years if we had the unpruned tree before us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1] Reference

Because the young trees come from the nursery unpruned, do not leave them in that condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home Acre] Reference

"Altogether," he said vaguely, snapping dead twigs from the heavy unpruned growth of the rose vines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne] Reference

The spreading fig-trees, the bushes of bright red fuchsia, and the unpruned roses made a fertile wilderness of flowers and foliage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vixen, Volume III.] Reference

I have been wayward and wild and untrained and unpruned, —and then, upon all that I have hung every pretty thing I could get together.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gold of Chickaree] Reference