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- not comparableNot stanched.
RICHARD III (DUKE OF GLOUCESTER): Stifle the villain whose unstanched thirst York and young Rutland could not satisfy.
c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi]2 more examples
GONZALO: I'll warrant him for drowning, though the ship were no stronger than a nutshell and as leaky as an unstanched wench.
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]Covered with dust and blood — the thick gore slowly dropping from his unstanched wounds, his head swollen, his right eye closed — the poor brute presented a deplorable spectacle.
1837, William Harrison Ainsworth, Crichton, volume 2, page 174
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