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

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 Nukariya, Kaiten

The hand that passively held the mockery of the worthless, pithless reed, therefore rules the princes of the earth with the rod of iron.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Maclaren, Alexander

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 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