strengthless

Example Sentences

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And round that early-laurelled head Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead, And find unwithered on its curls The garland briefer than a girl’s.

From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2016

Dr. Ernst Distelmeyer," joyless, strengthless Dr. Ley relinquished a vial of poison and told his U.S. captors: "I will always believe that Adolf Hitler was Germany's greatest man.

From Time Magazine Archive

Speechless and strengthless, a shadow thin, He roved the castle to find his kin.

From Songs from Books by Kipling, Rudyard

He raised his strengthless hand for a few inches, and let it fall with a gesture of hopeless wretchedness.

From A Sheaf of Corn by Mann, Mary E.

But not to strength; the little that she had gained was spent by that long interview, with all its attendant conflicting emotions, and Leslie lay, strengthless once more, at the mercy of her enemies.

From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lynch, Lawrence L.