strengthless

Example Sentences

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And round that early-laurelled head Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead, And find unwithered on its curls The garland briefer than a girl’s.

From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2016

Dr. Ernst Distelmeyer," joyless, strengthless Dr. Ley relinquished a vial of poison and told his U.S. captors: "I will always believe that Adolf Hitler was Germany's greatest man.

From Time Magazine Archive

He raised his strengthless hand for a few inches, and let it fall with a gesture of hopeless wretchedness.

From A Sheaf of Corn by Mann, Mary E.

When Lord Hope fell back against the window-frame, strengthless from excess of feeling, she laid a hand upon the girl's shoulder, and, turning her face gently to the289 light, gazed upon it with tender scrutiny.

From The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

Speechless and strengthless, a shadow thin, He roved the castle to find his kin.

From Songs from Books by Kipling, Rudyard