strengthless

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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

And when the ring was taken off it, Brynhild sank down on her knees like one that was strengthless.

From The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths by Pogany, Willy

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)

Towns monkishly secluded, girt with ponderous mediæval walls, towns on whose swart and sedgy canals lonely swans glide like milky gondolas, towns like a dream, strengthless, prisoned in sleep eternal.

From ?mile Verhaeren by Zweig, Stefan