If he disarms, if he allows unfretted inspections, my prediction is there won't be a war.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2002] Reference

How softly, almost lingeringly, it lets the moments slip from gold to gray, seeking to give him, to the full and unfretted, his little hour in the sunshine!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference

The only thing I can add to the annotation, off the top of my head, is that "double-E waterfall" to me, as a musician, meant one of those unfretted notes way up the guitar neck, that when played through a flange/echo device provides cascades of echo/overtones, in an audio waterfall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Annotated "China Cat Sunflower"] Reference

The dwellers of the mountains are calm and unfretted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Singing Mouse Stories] Reference

He gazed out upon a sweet blue sky, unfretted by any cloud.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains] Reference

Her skin was extraordinarily unfretted for her forty-five years of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love of Brothers] Reference

A group (taraf) composed of the fiddle (scripca), the dulcimer (lumbal), and unfretted lute.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

These subjects unlearned or forgotten, one could still go through life unfretted by the loss.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers] Reference

He enjoys all rational diversions, unfretted by the superfluities with which we have weighted them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans and Others] Reference

We travelled at night or in the freshness of early morning, regardless of the hours, unfretted by the tyrannous remembrances of appointed times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apologia Diffidentis] Reference

Behind this stretches the miniature landscape, but the foreground is unfretted by detail, abounding in the repose of the simple surfaces of the garments of Mother and Child.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tapestry Book] Reference

It is a great book because the romance of it emerges into undisturbed amplitude of space, and asserts itself in large, grand, primitive forms unfretted by teasing irrelevancies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] Reference

What would make a good experiment might be to put a capo on, and then play in Ab exactly what you would play in G, only one fret up: same fingerings, same use of unfretted strings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

I was startled by its strong reminder of Charlotte's own life; but Charlotte answered my anxious glance with a brow so unfretted that I let the reading go on, and so made a cruel mistake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cavalier] Reference

The trail, for the greater part of the distance, ran through beautiful valleys and over low-lying hills, where nature still reigned unfretted by man and where a human being was seldom seen, consequently.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49] Reference

The song's beautiful opening chords are interrupted by the jarringly realistic mimicking of an air raid siren - an effect he achieves by sliding a finger back and forth on the strings along the instrument's unfretted neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

A few of the arches present on their ringstones those characteristic toothed and zig-zag ornaments that are of not unfamiliar occurrence on the round squat doorways of the older parish churches of England; but by much the greater number exhibit merely a few rude mouldings, that bend over ponderous columns and massive capitals, unfretted by the tool of the carver.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference

The deepest ignorance, the dullest incapacity, the cloudiest faculties of apprehension, were nothing to him in man or woman, provided he could only be sensible of that indescribable emanation from voice and eye and movement, that silent effusion of serenity around spoken words, which nature has given to some tranquillising spirits, and which would have left him free in an even life of indolent meditation and unfretted sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)] Reference

The fig leaves may have lost none of their verdure -- the sky may be unfretted by one vengeful cloud -- nature, around you, may be hushed and still.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memories of Bethany] Reference

In spite of herself, she watched M. de Nueil’s expressive face, and admired the noble countenance of a soul, unbroken as yet by the cruel discipline of the life of the world, unfretted by continual scheming to gratify personal ambition and vanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Deserted Woman] Reference

The story-writers of my day would have deemed the making of bricks without straw a light task compared with the construction of a romance from which should be excluded all effects drawn from the contrasts of wealth and poverty, education and ignorance, coarseness and refinement, high and low, all motives drawn from social pride and ambition, the desire of being richer or the fear of being poorer, together with sordid anxieties of any sort for one's self or others; a romance in which there should, indeed, be love galore, but love unfretted by artificial barriers created by differences of station or possessions, owning no other law but that of the heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Looking Backward 2000-1887] Reference