strengthless

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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

Towns monkishly secluded, girt with ponderous mediæval walls, towns on whose swart and sedgy canals lonely swans glide like milky gondolas, towns like a dream, strengthless, prisoned in sleep eternal.

From ?mile Verhaeren by Zweig, Stefan

"Aye—" She bowed her head, a strengthless despair weighting it down.

From The Valor of Cappen Varra by Anderson, Poul William

It is inconceivable; steel would be as friable as sand, and strengthless as smoke, in such strain.

From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Warren, Henry White