He is the unfelled tree, not the timber framed into the ship of state or carved into ecclesiastic grace. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference
A quick glimpse reassured the Rowan that his mind held no trace of any neglect, that he had fallen asleep unfelled. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowan]
Lord of forests unfelled, and not a gleaner of fagots. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Reference
This leaves the ground covered with seven stages of growth, the large trees remaining unfelled. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference
Nor were land hunger and revenge the only motives that stirred them to aggression; meaner feelings were mixed with the greed for untilled prairie and unfelled forest, and the fierce longing for blood. From Wordnik.com. [The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807] Reference
The forests are unfelled, cultivation is yet in its infancy and only in patches; none but the rudest tenements, if any, for human dwellings exist; the lands unfenced, if opened, and every thing for shelter, for comfort and support must be begun. From Wordnik.com. [A Guide to Capitalists and Emigrants: Being a Statistical and Descriptive Account of the Several Counties of the State of North Carolina, United States of America; Together with Letters of Prominent Citizens of the State in Relation to the Soil, Climate, Productions, Minerals, &C., and an Account of the Swamp Lands of the State] Reference
The woods that remained unfelled on Little Folley were of no material use to the enemy, for, even had there been labor to remove them (which I never had), the formation of the ground being a series of ridges of sand hills formed a screen which hid the enemy's movements completely from us, and afforded all the concealment he could desire. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the War of Secession] Reference
And unfelled the slender birch-tree. From Wordnik.com. [Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes] Reference
And unfelled the slender birch-tree? ". From Wordnik.com. [Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes] Reference
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