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sapless

[sap-lis] / ˈsæp lɪs /










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Clark, who called Congress “the sapless branch,” belonged to the growing and restive corps of liberal Democrats who found the Senate less the genteel club that White described than a mildewed establishment.

From The New Yorker Jan. 12, 2015

These two tried-&-true shows, excellent by themselves, together make up a sapless hybrid.

From Time Magazine Archive

Probably the worst of all attempts to put Dostoevsky on the stage, it reduced the vast forest of his imagination to dead, sapless stumps.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whenever I talked, my voice came out sapless.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

Thus trees also, if they are felled in full moon, are harder and more lasting for building, and especially if they are made sapless.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric




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