pithless

Example Sentences

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The old mother, too tough herself for any hawk's beak to tear, is left squatting on her sorrows as on a pile of cracked and pithless bones.

From Time Magazine Archive

All thoughts of fear were banished in an instant, as soon as we discovered that we had flesh and blood to deal with instead of grave-clothes and pithless bones.

From The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia by Champney, James Wells

The grass that gets no other light grows slim and pithless, bearing no seed-knot on its slender top.

From The Parables of Our Lord by Arnot, William

My heart out of its hool was like to loup; I pithless grew with fear, and had nae hope; Till, with an elritch laugh, they vanished quite.

From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist

Wilt, wilt, v.i. to droop, lose energy.—v.t. to render limp or pithless.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various