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1599.  Daniel, Musoph., Wks. (1602), C i b. For this it practises to dissipate Th’ vnsheltred troupes.

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1665.  Boyle, Occas. Refl., IV. xx. Shunning all beaten Paths, and unshelter’d Grounds.

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1667.  Decay Chr. Piety, vi. 143. [To] leave him unsheltred to that scorching wrath of God.

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1726.  Leoni, Alberti’s Archit., I. 28. An open place, unshelter’d either by Woods or Hills.

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1760–72.  H. Brooke, Fool of Qual. (1809), II. 133. I did not dare to leave my child alone and unsheltered.

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1815.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol., iv. I. 85. We should soon be … unsheltered, except by caves.

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1855.  [J. R. Leifchild], Cornwall, 64. A bleak and unsheltered country.

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