A weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy and promptitude. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He snatched at the nerveless hand on the bed and held it. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
The second glume is membranous, 1 - to 5-nerved or nerveless. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
He knew he was falling; his nerveless hand loosened his blade. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
The third glume is hyaline, empty, nerveless and without a palea. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The audience sat numbed and nerveless when they scored for the last heat. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Then the hypodermic fell from his nerveless hand and he fought to break away. From Wordnik.com. [The Monster] Reference
The first glume is very small, hyaline, suborbicular, nerveless and truncate. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Panicle rather narrow with short capillary branches; glumes I and II nerveless. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
She had remained in the same nerveless stupor as that in which I had found her. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
His hat-trick against Croatia in 2008 was a demonstration of nerveless precision. From Wordnik.com. [Winger Adam Johnson battles to become England's right-hand man] Reference
Spikelets are small consisting of three membranous glumes, 1-nerved or nerveless. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
He enhanced his reputation here, with two headed finishes and a nerveless penalty. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Crouch says Tottenham want to face Real Madrid and Internazionale] Reference
We might soon become like spoiled children, or nerveless drones, or pampered aristocrats. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
She shrunk before those terrible eyes of his, and gripped the pillow with nerveless hands. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
For twenty minutes his hand never falters, then the charcoal drops from his nerveless fingers!. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
Their arms were nerveless, their faces haggard, their persons emaciated, their spirits wholly spent. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
She drowned in my very grasp, and at last she dropped from my nerveless hands to leave my sight forever. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
He ground his teeth with impatience as his nerveless arm fell helpless; but he reached her side at last. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
But she remained nerveless, powerless to move, frozen in her stupefaction, while her vehicle pursued its crazy course. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
There he stood, an iron-nerved man, trembling and nerveless in expectancy of a revelation of horror; at length he uttered. From Wordnik.com. [The Dock Rats of New York] Reference
The king is dead but the people rejoice as the scepter falls from his nerveless hand and a new monarch ascends the throne. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920] Reference
Mr. Sartoris, with brows bent and sullen scowl upon his lip; the nerveless hand by his side grasps the still-smoking pistol. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
Again he lifted the uneasy figure and placed it upon the reclining chair, into which it collapsed helplessly with a nerveless huddle. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
'Forgive me; I have not been myself of late, I think; and this -- this was so sudden,' and he walked away with dull, nerveless tread. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
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