A comfortless room. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
They crossed the Atlantic in comfortless craft and took the serious risk of attempting to secure a foothold in free and fresh Canada. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of National Fear] Reference
The announcement made them feel as if they were to be left "comfortless" and forsaken. From Wordnik.com. [The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church] Reference
If so, how comfortless must Eve's bower have been!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
The ebbing forces of the wine left him comfortless. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
One result of the comfortless and dreary aspect of the interior of an. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
Many of them are rough characters and live hard and comfortless lives. From Wordnik.com. [Birdseye Views of Far Lands] Reference
Stone was everywhere, giving a cold, comfortless look to the dwellings. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
"Dreadful!" cried poor comfortless Julia; "can it, say, can it be true?". From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
And he played blind optimist against the cold, comfortless fact that the. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
The castle and manor-house of the mediæval lord were still more comfortless. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
My old age would be comfortless indeed if I were doomed to spend it here alone. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls] Reference
This seemed a little comfortless at the time, but it saved our lives afterwards. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference
One would think it impossible to exaggerate such a picture of comfortless neglect. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Altogether, the appearance of the house is gaunt, filthy, and utterly comfortless. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, -- such is the comfortless doctrine of the book. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
And he turned himself upon the comfortless sofa with a feeling akin to desperation. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
With the flight of time, this comfortless existence gave way to more luxurious customs. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
We parted, and I commenced as comfortless an expedition as it would be easy to imagine. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
The same old room we occupied years ago, however comfortless then, has a familiar air of welcome now. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
My shirts look like pillow-cases, and anything more comfortless than my comforters I couldn't imagine. From Wordnik.com. [Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 11, 1914] Reference
And we need never despair and lag, need never be cold and comfortless, if we would but love and remember. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
The huge school-room was as primitive and comfortless in its appointments and furniture as well could be. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
The room which was given to him for his use was "an old dirty, ill-smelling, comfortless store-room", and. From Wordnik.com. [Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858] Reference
My orders were negligently obeyed; and, in fact, every thing in the schooner became as comfortless as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Mark; and the chair seemed so comfortless and desolate, thus left all to itself, that she could bear it no longer. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
Napoleon had long lived in a state of nervous fear, which must have made even his high position comfortless to him. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
Its comfortless neglect is a true epitome of the life of him who first shaped his course from his reveries within it. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
At last he came to a wide moor, where lived some Wild Ducks; here he lay the whole night, very tired and comfortless. From Wordnik.com. [Favorite Fairy Tales] Reference
In one corner of a large, unpainted building was what he called the infirmary, and a comfortless looking place it was. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
It looks barer, and is overshadowed by that peculiarly comfortless air always given by chimneys or machinery of mines. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
That inhabited by the English ambassador, on the contrary, is small, comfortless, and with only a small slip of ground. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference
In the evening I went to the palace for a few minutes, but it felt so cold and comfortless that I had no wish to remain. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference
The poverty and misery, experienced by the peasants in their comfortless hovels, awakens a feeling of discontent and protest. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
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