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1700.  Dryden, Ovid’s Met., XII. 135. Th’ inviolable Body stood sincere; Though Cygnus … scornful offer’d his unshielded Side.

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c. 1790.  A. Wilson, Poems, Tears of Britain. Soon will the tempest … This unshielded bosom most fatally wound.

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1817.  Scott, Harold, III. viii. Unshielded, mail-less, on he goes Singly against a host of foes.

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1883.  Hardwick’s Photogr. Chem., 290. Exposing a small slip of the sensitive paper, unshielded, to the sun’s rays.

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