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
He was a pithless automaton, in whom mind and emotions had long since become inert, and only enough sensibility was left to enable him to feel dimly miserable.
From The Subterranean Brotherhood by Hawthorne, Julian
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
And pithless arms, like to a wither'd Vine That droops his sapless branches to the ground. 1st Henry VI, act ii, sc.
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson
In the most pithless he had started the working of the sap of life.
From Jaffery by Locke, William John
