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1585.  T. Washington, trans. Nicholay’s Voy., II. xiii. 48 b. There was no kind of … cruelty by them left vnexecuted.

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1606.  Shaks., Ant. & Cl., III. vii. 45. You therein … leaue vnexecuted Your owne renowned knowledge.

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1741–2.  Gray, Agrippina, 155. Why do I waste the fruitless hours in threats unexecuted?

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1790.  Pennant, London (1813), 140. A vast plan, left unexecuted on account of the unhappy times.

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1850.  Grote, Greece, II. lxiv. VIII. 253. The duty remained unexecuted, and the seamen … were left to perish unassisted.

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1863.  H. Cox, Instit., II. viii. 499. The Court directs the cancellation of unexecuted agreements.

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