uninked
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[edit]uninked (not comparable)
- Not inked.
- 1878, Various, St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878[1]:
- Girls are always trying to find something which they can make to delight their papas, and a gay little pen-wiper with fresh uninked leaves rarely comes amiss to a man who likes an orderly writing-table.
- 1919, O. Henry, Roads of Destiny[2]:
- Of the colour of the mahogany bank furniture was Uncle Bushrod--thus dark was he externally; white as the uninked pages of the bank ledgers was his soul.