pithless
Example Sentences
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The old mother, too tough herself for any hawk's beak to tear, is left squatting on her sorrows as on a pile of cracked and pithless bones.
From Time Magazine Archive
Until he could carry out his idea of giving them tips of bones, he must find some shoots of solid, pithless growth to take the place of his light hollow canes.
From In the Morning of Time by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
Wilt, wilt, v.i. to droop, lose energy.—v.t. to render limp or pithless.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
The emaciation of my body was extreme, my limbs were pithless reeds, my skull grinned through the tensely stretched skin, and my eyes were enormous.
From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
O saint, what is the use of the enjoyment of pleasures in this offensive, pithless body—a mere mass of bones, skins, sinews, marrow, and flesh?
From The Religion of the Samurai A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan by Nukariya, Kaiten
