Verb (used with object) : to undraw a curtain. From Dictionary.com.
The sword undrawn, the bow unloosed, the mightiest champion of them all laid low and humiliated. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
For we have such a decree of the Senate, but hidden in the scroll which contains it, as a sword undrawn in its scabbard. From Wordnik.com. [The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2)] Reference
And great is the man with a sword undrawn. From Wordnik.com. [Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside] Reference
And great is the man with the sword undrawn. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
LEMON: But can these battle lines be undrawn as they near the stage?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2008] Reference
Icy drafts rattled the windowpanes and fluttered the undrawn drapes. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
Instead, the bath was undrawn, and the only cage prepared was for Kaine. From Wordnik.com. [jaxraven Diary Entry] Reference
Having undrawn these, it disclosed a flight of steps, which he descended. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of the Forest] Reference
‘With the cork undrawn,’ he added, emphatically, looking at her father. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
We passed the night in feverish expectation, but our bolts remained undrawn. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
The undrawn paper belongs to the marker, and he is the boy who holds the hat. From Wordnik.com. [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference
A celebration of the undrawn line that divides Northern Africa and Subsaharan. From Wordnik.com. [Chloe Malle: The Empress Has New Clothes: How Diane von Furstenberg Conquered the World (Well, Just About)] Reference
These "facilities B and C" remain undrawn; but neither have they been cancelled. From Wordnik.com. [John W Henry and Liverpool keep quiet about £45m loan deals] Reference
The curtain was undrawn, and I could see the hall continually swept by the waves. From Wordnik.com. [The Englishwoman in America] Reference
Old, undrawn loans are proving a boon for some companies and a headache for banks. From Wordnik.com. [European Corporate-Loan] Reference
But no more! you have yourself, undrawn the veil, and humbly do I thank the merciful. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for the Young] Reference
Strong bolts were now heard to be undrawn, and a man, armed with a hunting spear, appeared. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of Udolpho] Reference
When I go for walks after dark I look nonchalantly up at lit bedrooms with undrawn curtains. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: It's All Right Now by Charles Chadwick] Reference
Kathy glanced out of her window where the curtains were still undrawn in spite of the darkness. From Wordnik.com. [A Place of Execution]
Some were covered with green baize curtains which were not undrawn in presence of young ladies. From Wordnik.com. [Pierre Grassou] Reference
And the lines of warriors escorting the chanter stood to attention, their weapons still undrawn. From Wordnik.com. [Key Out of Time] Reference
Six-guns went undrawn, punches unthrown, but tension hung in the background, biding its sweet, nasty time. From Wordnik.com. [Gripes of Wrath: James Wolcott] Reference
I came awake again in the quiet hour before dawn, when a faint light brought shape to the undrawn curtains. From Wordnik.com. [Locked Rooms]
She went close to the window -- three blinds had been left undrawn and the window panes ran down to the verandah floor. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
Another way of disposing of the undrawn threads is to cover them with a kind of darning stitch, as illustrated in fig. 117. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
The curtains were undrawn in the little cubicles around the square-one tired girl lay alone on a bed with her ankles crossed. From Wordnik.com. [The Quiet American]
One is the poor management of contingent exposures such as backup loans to off-balance-sheet vehicles and undrawn lines of credit. From Wordnik.com. [St. Louis Stands by Busch] Reference
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