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

All thoughts of fear were banished in an instant, as soon as we discovered that we had flesh and blood to deal with instead of grave-clothes and pithless bones.

From The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia by Champney, James Wells

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)

Got by some dotard in his pithless years, And sent a withered sapling to the world.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir

The hand that passively held the mockery of the worthless, pithless reed, therefore rules the princes of the earth with the rod of iron.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Maclaren, Alexander