designless

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The coils and turns upon this leaf, like many other markings of nature, form a designless design, the idea of which is not traceable back to a mind.

From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Jefferies, Richard

He informs us that lightning is designless and self-created.

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

My mind cannot be twisted to it; I am separate altogether from these designless things.

From The Story of My Heart An Autobiography by Jefferies, Richard

After saying that lightning is designless and self-created, he says, a few lines further on, that it is the Deity who bids ‘the thunder rattle from the skiey deep.’

From Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses by Smith, Horace

All the designless, formless chaos of chance-directed matter, without idea or human plan, squats there embodied in the pathway.

From The Story of My Heart An Autobiography by Jefferies, Richard