Adjective : sapless plants. From Dictionary.com.
Home Rule than that kind of sapless Nationalism, astonishingly rare in. From Wordnik.com. [The Framework of Home Rule] Reference
The mimosa trees, sapless and dry, are thick with thorns. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of General Gordon] Reference
It was as if it had not had enough sun and warmth; it was a little greyish and sapless. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference
There is, says Vanessa, a huge sapless aridity in the world out there that needs slaking. From Wordnik.com. [In the Desert, Prime Time] Reference
Marley stared open-mouthed at David for a moment, and then relapsed into his sapless official manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
Between these two extremes might be found about five feet ten of humanity, lank, sapless, and stooping. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Touched by self-doubt, his imagination supplied visions of withered branches and trunks drained to sapless husks. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowfane]
And if they deal thus with me, a green and flourishing tree, what will they do with the whole nation, a dry and sapless trunk?. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
The terrors and horrors of Cocytus and Styx, ghosts and sapless shades, and the rest of their Tartarean nomenclature, must vanish. From Wordnik.com. [The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett] Reference
The trees kept up their sleepy sigh, and the sapless branches creaked, but no human voice, no human foot save his own, broke the silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century] Reference
Hence is the world filled with so many lifeless, sapless, graceless, artificial declarations of divine truth in the schoolmen and others. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
They drift apart now, halfheartedly nosing the stiff, sapless remnants of field hay; sometimes one will lift and gaze back toward the barn. From Wordnik.com. [Two Poems] Reference
Come sapless blossom, creep not still on earth, i. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II] Reference
Jutted from sapless shoulders like dead forks from forest trunks. From Wordnik.com. [The Light of Asia] Reference
Was not my old age turned into a sapless tree, a poisoned spring?. From Wordnik.com. [The Disowned — Complete] Reference
The same merciless sun, the same sapless and parched surroundings. From Wordnik.com. [On the Heels of De Wet] Reference
There is life always, even in the dry fir-cone that looks so brown and sapless. From Wordnik.com. [The Open Air] Reference
Nast for our image here in hopes of approaching his genius for ridiculing sapless pols. From Wordnik.com. [CapeCodToday Blog Chowder] Reference
Yes! cast thee out as fuel for the fire of His wrath, -- a sapless, fruitless cumberer. From Wordnik.com. [The Faithful Promiser] Reference
Better as it is! better to mourn over the green bough than to look upon the sapless stem. From Wordnik.com. [Devereux — Complete] Reference
What a sapless, fibreless thing is a man untrained by endurance and untaught by suffering!. From Wordnik.com. [The Chief End of Man] Reference
He picked a bennet from the grass and bit it, but it was sapless, dried by the summer heat. From Wordnik.com. [Wood Magic A Fable] Reference
The putrid soil of that nether world yields other forms besides the obviously blighted and sapless. From Wordnik.com. [The Nether World] Reference
Unfortunate are the fortunate if they are lifted into a sphere which is sapless of delicacy of feeling for its own. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Essays] Reference
She has nothing to think about that profoundly interests her; her books are all but as sapless to her as to you or me. From Wordnik.com. [The Emancipated] Reference
Even then it will be dangerous to repose beneath my branches in the belief that I am sapless because I have changed colour. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Comedians — Complete] Reference
Are there any other "sapless candidates" that you are going to ridicule, or are they all as pure as the pristine, driven snow?. From Wordnik.com. [CapeCodToday Blog Chowder] Reference
No wonder that their upper and more exposed branches were leafless, and that the dead bark had peeled away, from sapless old age. From Wordnik.com. [Curious, if True Strange Tales] Reference
Some thornless thistles, a little brush of sapless-looking indigo, and some species of compositae struggle for a doleful existence. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
Above him, head and shoulders, towered Commines, square-set, burly, muscular, and as full of life and vigour as his master was sapless. From Wordnik.com. [The Justice of the King] Reference
As Mr. Parker hints, he is one of those who refuse to bow to the intolerable mandate of the dry and sapless spirit of "specialisation.". From Wordnik.com. [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] Reference
One of my friends tried long ago to pump up from this sapless soil some memory of Wordsworth, but no one could remember anything about him. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Manx Nation - 1891] Reference
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