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

Witness this primrose bank whereon I lie; These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me, Two strengthless doves will draw me through the sky, From morn to night, even where I list, to sport me.

From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by Head, James H.

Notwithstanding the tendency of all high-class energy to deteriorate, to find equilibrium, and so be strengthless and dead, there is, somehow, in nature a tremendous push upward.

From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Warren, Henry White