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1593.  B. Barnes, Poems (Grosart), 95. Thine hart of Adamant, which none can wound: Thine eye of Adamant, vnperced found.

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1607.  Chapman, Bussy d’Ambois, V. ii. Counsels (as your entrails) Should be unpierc’d and sound kept.

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1633.  P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., VI. xxix. Such is this famous Prince, such his unpierced beam.

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1744.  Thomson, Autumn, 852. Where, unpierc’d by Frost, the Cavern sweats.

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1859.  Phil. Trans., LI. 377. The leaves on each side of the foil were pierced, while the foil itself remained unpierced.

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1862.  Lytton, Str. Story, II. 192. My dark guess into the Shadowland unpierced by Philosophy.

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1864.  J. H. Foley, in Willis & Clark, Cambridge (1886), III. 223. An arch, unpierced,… making … a shallow recess.

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