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1581.  Bp. Aylmer, in Nicolas, Mem. Sir C. Hatton (1847), 240. If you will have … your credit kept uncracked for commending me.

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1623.  Middleton & Rowley, Sp. Gipsy, IV. i. The uncrack’d diamond of my faith shall hold.

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1648.  Sanderson, Serm. (1681), II. 226. The ice … is of that firmness, that it will bear a loaden cart uncrackt.

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1763.  Churchill, Ghost, IV. 1397. Good men … With names uncrack’d, and credit sound.

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1826.  Lamb, Lett. (1886), II. 228. Heaven send him his jars un-crack’d.

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1891.  Kipling, Light that Failed (1900), 244. The person who demanded muffins and an uncracked teapot.

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