A fit she had had alone and untended during those three days of isolated starvation had unsettled Catharine's reason.

The area bordering the ditch had been left wild, a barrier of vines, brush, untended trees.

A blood-encrusted face showed on the slipless pillow, while across the forehead was a jagged, red, untended wound.

To send poor Nancy untended to sea in a schooner was simply to sign her death-warrant.