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a. 1593.  Marlowe, Ovid’s Elegies, III. v. 84. But woods and groues keepe your faults vndetected.

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1663.  Boyle, Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos., II. V. ii. 124. Undetected properties might in many others … be discovered.

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1749.  Johnson, Irene, III. ii. Strange! that this gen’ral fraud from day to day Should fill the world with wretches undetected.

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1825.  Ld. Cockburn, Mem. (1856), 206. Which show how much inaccuracy may sometimes pass undetected.

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1862.  Lytton, Str. Story, I. 194. The gift … is stored, unknown to the possessor, undetected by the common observer.

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