pithless
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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 Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
It lags behind the flock, ascends a slope with difficulty, and has a listless, heavy, pithless appearance.
From A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. by Ambrose Blacklock
The grass that gets no other light grows slim and pithless, bearing no seed-knot on its slender top.
From The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot
The Lords amended it to death, and sent it back to the Commons—the poor and pithless shadow of its former self.
From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886. by Various
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