Unbattered

Because there is great benefit in seeming to be a big strong nation that is unroiled, unruffled and unbattered by the constant high seas of the world. ❋ Peggy Noonan (2011)

As they heat up, the worms' bodies will expand, causing the unbattered portions to elongate. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The market is sending a clear signal that the beneficiaries of the shakeout will be boutique investment banks focusing on high-margin merger advice and independent money managers relatively unbattered by the credit crisis. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Robin really liked them as she prefers her wings unbattered. ❋ Randi (2007)

Until his parents returned: unbattered, unbloody, perfectly calm. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1991)

And then John Thorwald, the Prodigious Prodigy, whose gigantic frame seemed unbattered by the terrific daily scrimmage, whom it was impossible to hurt on the gridiron, the day before, going downstairs in Creighton Hall, hurrying to a class, had caught his heel on the top step, and crashed to the bottom! ❋ J. Raymond Elderdice (N/A)

Gliding slowly across the mass came an electric tram, an entirely unbattered tram with even its glass undamaged, and then another and another. ❋ Unknown (1906)

Past a famous mining village which for two years has been swept by shell fire, now British, now German, until nothing save the village Crucifix remains unbattered; iron, brick, and concrete, twisted by the awful destructive power of high explosives. ❋ Inez Bigwood (1901)

We honour our beloved dead; those of us who have returned unbattered go now about our work with cooler, more critical eyes, but mostly with lips closed against our three or four years 'experience. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)

Women are pleased to see their favourite in the place of prominence -- as long as Fortune swims him unbuffeted, or one should say, unbattered, up the mounting wave. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

"Live the Fatherland!" rings responsive, to the welkin, like rolling-fire from side to side: our ranks are as firm as rocks; and Brunswick may recross the dell, ineffectual; regain his old position on La Lune; not unbattered by the way. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

He is met by rock-ranks, by shouts of Vive la Patrie; and driven back, not unbattered. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

But he also holds no hope that Chinese, Indian and other economies will emerge unbattered from the shock and disorder of a European Monetary Union break-up, the kind of messy scenario feared if Greece - or even worse, Italy - abruptly stops paying on its debt. ❋ Unknown (2011)

While many people enjoy their chicken unbattered, a great many more love to dip their chicken in a batter of some sort. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And there it was — the Marine Band harmonica, just like Andrew’s old one, only shiny and unbattered. ❋ Carol Fenner (2001)