The water, sweeping onward with resistless power, shot him like an arrow to the brink. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
Irresistible (or resistless) impulses. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
resistless hostages. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Little wonder, therefore, that his amazing eloquence was described as a resistless torrent. From Wordnik.com. [Successful Methods of Public Speaking] Reference
Sweeps in resistless fury oer the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Letter 69] Reference
Would the resistless waters persist in our destruction?. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference
The potent, resistless, unpurchasable quality of Genius. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
Its current was resistless, because it was narrow and impetuous. From Wordnik.com. [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference
Destiny, or be crushed under the resistless tread of advancing peoples!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
His mind was a resistless flood that deluged the world of literature with its glory. From Wordnik.com. [Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales] Reference
Whatever he did he did with all the resistless energy of a man still in his forties. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
This resistless quality he perhaps owes chiefly to his sullen skies and rugged soils. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
It is very true of them, as we see them here, -- so unresisting, and yet so resistless. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
Alas! the stream had been crossed by the resistless flames, and her last hope died away. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
As I gazed it seemed to me I would be drawn down by the resistless fascination of terror. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
Truly the Furies are massing their evasive yet resistless squares against this guilty soul. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
There were two qualities in Lincoln's anecdotes: their resistless fun, and their appropriateness. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Some losses are natural and unavoidable, quite beyond our control, the result of resistless change. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
Like an avalanche, the mighty mob swept down upon him, carrying him along upon the resistless tide. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
The exertion brought a cough to his throat, a choking resistless cough of age and clogging humours. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
It is a sweeping, resistless energy, which carries everything before it, like a river in full flood. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Conduct] Reference
A force as resistless as that of the attraction that holds the stars in their courses will lead him on. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
So resistless was this power, that from the highest noble down to the meanest slave, all were subject to it. From Wordnik.com. [The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome] Reference
With her hundred hands she grasped her foes in every region under heaven, and crushed them with resistless energy. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
With resistless force the American horsemen dashed against the opposing ranks and fired their pistols with telling effect. From Wordnik.com. [Tecumseh A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People; Vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada] Reference
Or does there work, under all our human will and endeavor, a force resistless as gravitation and as constant as attraction?. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
They were on a great embankment, or levee, which seemed to hold in the water of a mighty river, running with resistless force. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892] Reference
And very soon was the tribe itself swept away by the same resistless torrent which divested their land of its sylvan adornments. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference
Happy are they, who learn this lesson early -- for, thence, the current onward flows, a tranquil, noiseless, but resistless, tide. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
It is certain that in some not distant day the comrades of the chieftain will pour with resistless strength into its doomed walls. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
As Buttons told all this in passionate words, to which his ardent love gave resistless eloquence, her whole manner showed that her heart responded. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
But the great hidden teaching of disaster is that the laws of nature are eternal and inexorable; that they move with unerring precision and resistless force. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
There is a pathos about this gradual drifting away of lives, borne from each other, it sometimes seems, by opposing tides, as if a resistless power separated them. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
'Now, reptile, I have thee!' muttered the Doctor, (for it was he) as with mighty and resistless strength he dashed the miscreant to the floor and deprived him of his knife. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
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