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It will all turn to stubble and sapless rigidity before his eyes.
HOW TO OBSERVEHARRIET MARTINEAU
Our poor horses were in a miserable condition, for so little rain had fallen that the grass was very dry and sapless.
THREE YEARS' WARCHRISTIAAN RUDOLF DE WET
Repression when successful induced a nerveless, sapless type.
WILLIAM BLAKECHARLES GARDNER
Only the idle chatter of the sapless leaves answered to the yearning cry of his broken spirit.
THE DEEMSTERHALL CAINE
He came to meet them on his crutches, a smile on his yellow, sapless face.
THE SHERIFF'S SONWILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE
Spring with its pulsing, generous life, followed the sapless dreariness of winter.
TEN TUDOR STATESMENARTHUR D. INNES
The last red roseleaf had fluttered silently down; the last purple sloe had fallen from its sapless stem.
CREATURES OF THE NIGHTALFRED W. REES
Even then it will be dangerous to repose beneath my branches in the belief that I am sapless because I have changed colour.
THE TRAGIC COMEDIANS, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITH
The sighing of the wind alone is heard among their sapless branches.
RUINS AND OLD TREES, ASSOCIATED WITH MEMORABLE EVENTS IN ENGLISH HISTORYMARY ROBERTS
Youth and beauty fly swift away, while sapless old age expels the wanton loves and gentle sleep.
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