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

These are the words of one to whom the London gutters were for years a home, and whose strengthless manhood lay inert under a burden of pain he had no courage to lift.

From Atlantic Classics by Various

Is it strange that her nerves, so long excited and so delicate in themselves, gave way at last, prostrating her to the earth, strengthless as a child?

From Mabel's Mistake by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

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