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
In the most pithless he had started the working of the sap of life.
From Jaffery by William John Locke
The emaciation of my body was extreme, my limbs were pithless reeds, my skull grinned through the tensely stretched skin, and my eyes were enormous.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
O saint, what is the use of the enjoyment of pleasures in this offensive, pithless body—a mere mass of bones, skins, sinews, marrow, and flesh?
From The Religion of the Samurai A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan by Kaiten Nukariya
The Lords amended it to death, and sent it back to the Commons—the poor and pithless shadow of its former self.
From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886. by Various
