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untimbered

Shakespearean Definition:

Adjective - not furnished with timbers

Frequency: 1

Here are all of the speeches where untimbered shows up across the corpus:

Troilus and Cressida


With due observance of thy godlike seat ,
Great Agamemnon , Nestor shall apply
Thy latest words . In the reproof of chance
Lies the true proof of men . The sea being smooth ,
How many shallow bauble boats dare sail
Upon her patient breast , making their way
With those of nobler bulk !
But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage
The gentle Thetis , and anon behold
The strong-ribbed bark through liquid mountains cut ,
Bounding between the two moist elements ,
Like Perseus’ horse . Where’s then the saucy boat
Whose weak untimbered sides but even now
Corrivaled greatness ? Either to harbor fled
Or made a toast for Neptune . Even so
Doth valor’s show and valor’s worth divide
In storms of Fortune . For in her ray and brightness
The herd hath more annoyance by the breese
Than by the tiger , but when the splitting wind
Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks ,
And flies flee under shade , why , then the thing of
courage ,
As roused with rage , with rage doth sympathize ,
And with an accent tuned in selfsame key
Retorts to chiding Fortune .