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

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)

He was utterly listless and strengthless, although the voyage did him a little good.

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

"Behold," they cry, "she is grown soft and strengthless, All her proud memories changed to fear and fret."

From Poems of the Great War Published on the Behalf of the Prince of Wales's National Relief Fund by Various