There valiantly struggling, in obscure battle and skirmish, under rogue Rossignol, let them, unlaurelled, save the Republic, and 'be cut down gradually to the last man.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution] Reference

Similarly, those who would write about the plain, the long, low levels of commonplace human life, must have dwelt in them, have possessed the dreary, unlaurelled courage of the good bourgeois, have known what it is to live out the day just for the day's sake, with the blessed hope of a reasonably respectable and comfortable conclusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanishing Roads and Other Essays] Reference

Still Caesar was a very great man and he played a dazzling part, as all men do who come just at the fall of an old system, when society is as clay in the hands of the potter, and found a new system in its place, while the less dazzling task of making the new system work, by probity and industry, and of restoring the shattered allegiance of a people to its institutions, descends upon unlaurelled heads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

  But thus unlaurelled to descend in vain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Childe Harold's Pilgrimage] Reference

But thus unlaurelled to descend in vain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2] Reference

I come unlaurelled from the strenuous wars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essex] Reference