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

She was worse than strengthless against Denis Oglethorpe.

From Theo A Sprightly Love Story by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

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)

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)