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

But by Zeus of the Ægis I implore thee, suffer me not to live a strengthless shadow among men, but pity me: for no man lives in strength that has couched with immortal Goddesses.” p.

From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew

"Aye—" She bowed her head, a strengthless despair weighting it down.

From The Valor of Cappen Varra by Anderson, Poul William

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