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

Observe him, how he mumbles inarticulately, and makes strengthless clutchings at the blanket with his long, slender fingers.

From Idolatry A Romance by Hawthorne, Julian

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

From The Valor of Cappen Varra by Anderson, Poul William

"Behold," they cry, "she is grown soft and strengthless, All her proud memories changed to fear and fret."

From Poems of the Great War Published on the Behalf of the Prince of Wales's National Relief Fund by Various