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Certainly, in New York, we are too vain of our bustle to realize how mannerless and motiveless it is.
THE OXFORD BOOK OF AMERICAN ESSAYSVARIOUS
To break off their interview thus sharply seemed to him motiveless.
THE MAN WHO WAS GOODLEONARD MERRICK
The occurrences are, to all appearance, motiveless as the events in a feverish dream.
HISTORICAL MYSTERIESANDREW LANG
These impulses are not vile; our moral code does not cry out against them as it does against lust, greed, and motiveless cruelty.
THE GROWTH OF ENGLISH DRAMAARNOLD WYNNE
It is also a sign of the stiffening of the resistant "malice," or "motiveless malignity," which opposes creation.
THE COMPLEX VISIONJOHN COWPER POWYS
For not the wildest nightmare dream would seem more mad and motiveless than such a horror as this.
THE RED REDMAYNESEDEN PHILLPOTTS
To me it seems basic to the getting rid of fear to know that our trials, of whatever nature, are not motiveless.
THE CONQUEST OF FEARBASIL KING
To its existence is often to be traced the motiveless crimes of the young.'
LADY BYRON VINDICATEDHARRIET BEECHER STOWE
Here they swayed to and fro, hour after hour, motiveless, awaiting the progress of events.
LOUIS PHILIPPEJOHN S. C. (JOHN STEVENS CABOT) ABBOTT
I relate this occurrence, to show how motiveless such trespasses may be.
DEALINGS WITH THE DEAD, VOLUME I (OF 2)A SEXTON OF THE OLD SCHOOL

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