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

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

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

He loses himself in vague generalities and pithless abstractions.

From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Dillon, Emile Joseph

Until he could carry out his idea of giving them tips of bones, he must find some shoots of solid, pithless growth to take the place of his light hollow canes.

From In the Morning of Time by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir