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

Fortune had spared him a fall into the deeper channel, where even a foot of water might have drowned him, strengthless and fettered as he was.

From Trail's End by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)

Theo is not like Pamela or your Priscilla Gower, for instance; queenly as Theo looks, she is the veriest strengthless baby on earth.

From Theo A Sprightly Love Story by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

But by Zeus of the Ægis I implore thee, suffer me not to live a strengthless shadow among men, but pity me: for no man lives in strength that has couched with immortal Goddesses.” p.

From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew