Lastly, it is a deplorable waste of time to leave fortresses untaken in our rear.
Here they were so reserved, so introverted, so unapproachable that smiles were left untaken simply because they were not seen; if one existed in such a location, he would believe that cordiality was dead, severed from the world.
Lauren Isaacson Spring of 1979 A Heart Untaken I gave my heart away, That's not easy, No, not at all.
But their minds were blinded, for until this day, remaineth the same vail untakenaway in reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
For until this day, [said Paul] remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament, which vail is done away in Christ.
Moreover, when acting against forces wholly inferior in discipline and organisation, an untaken fortress is a refuge which one must take peculiar pains to destroy.
The second is that no competent commander on the spot would have thought of leaving behind him the garrison of even one untaken fortress.
In any case, security was certainly insecure with such a fort as Lychnidus untaken in their rear.
At midsummer Attila and his host were retiring from the untaken city, and beginning their retreat towards the Rhine, a retreat which they were not to accomplish unhindered.
The Imperial general could not leave so strong a place untaken in his rear, and though himself anxious enough to meet Theodahad, commenced the siege of the city.
And why should we when the chief strength of the enemy remains unassaulted and untaken within our walls?
He read a dispatch that moment received, urging Aramon to send a thousand men to help their brothers in Marseilles, threatened with troops from overseas and exposed to daily attacks from the still untaken forts.
