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- Not having been emptied.
- 1616, Homer, translated by George Chapman, The Odysseys of Homer[1], Book 9:
- And thus each man hung, till the morning shin’d;
Which come, he knew the hour, and let abroad
His male-flocks first, the females unmilk’d stood
Bleating and braying, their full bags so sore
With being unemptied, but their shepherd more
With being unsighted; which was cause his mind
Went not a milking.
- 1818, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto 4, Stanzas 69-70,[2]
- […] the sweat
- Of their great agony […]
- […] mounts in spray the skies, and thence again
- Returns in an unceasing shower, which round,
- With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain,
- Is an eternal April to the ground,
- Making it all one emerald.
- 1941, chapter 9, in Emily Carr: Klee Wyck[3]:
- Because the tide had been right to go, bedding had been stripped from the springs, food left about, water left unemptied to rust the kettles.