Noun : to have resource against loneliness. ,a woman of resource. From Dictionary.com.
And yet his mother looked so lone and so resourceless. From Wordnik.com. [An American Tragedy] Reference
But he himself was nearly as resourceless as a child new born to the world. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
Crys, people who are as resourceless and helpless as you lay out are not capable of independent living. From Wordnik.com. [Healthy Living] Reference
He may have visited Mexico in the past and still be capable of getting very lost when dropped resourceless into that country. From Wordnik.com. [Pedro Guzman -- Disability claim disputed] Reference
The man who really merits pity is the man who has been down from the start, and faces poverty with a blank, resourceless mind. From Wordnik.com. [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference
I end my random quotes with one about the Beatles: "Theirs is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism ...". From Wordnik.com. [Learning Through The Arts] Reference
But in reality, the tiny, resourceless government provided neither guns nor men nor mounts.20 It provided no uniforms, provisions, or barracks. From Wordnik.com. [EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON] Reference
As noble as his financial ideas may be, they left him cut-off from his usual union pocketbooks, friendless and resourceless in an election year. From Wordnik.com. [Will Schwartz: Is it Right To Disapprove of David Paterson?] Reference
His face, as he said this, and as Roberta clearly saw, mirrored the complete and resourceless collapse of all his recent plans in regard to her. From Wordnik.com. [An American Tragedy] Reference
My mind was cloudy as muddy water, and I sauntered around the camp looking important and weighty with calculation, but feeling resourceless and slow. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
Then the evening's entertainment will begin, and a miser indeed must he be, or beyond measure resourceless, who refuses halfpence for such choice festivities. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
He felt himself so dull, so weary, so resourceless. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
They are embarrassed, indeed, in the highest degree, but not wholly resourceless. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12)] Reference
He knew not what to say or do, but gazed in resourceless suspense at the strange figure she made. From Wordnik.com. [The Damnation of Theron Ware] Reference
Tramps, unlettered types as nearly all of them are, face their poverty with blank, resourceless minds. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Essays] Reference
Utterly resourceless people find themselves reduced to reading the penny stamps on yesterday's letters. From Wordnik.com. [Living Alone] Reference
The inactivity of Watson is only to be accounted for by his total ignorance of the resourceless state of Marion's rifles. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Francis Marion]
Some ten or twelve years ago, when Egeria took charge of the school, the children were dull, lifeless, listless, resourceless. From Wordnik.com. [What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular] Reference
Dawson's question made the reality of his position -- moneyless, resourceless, friendless -- burst over him like a waterspout. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Generation] Reference
Felicite, who had been waiting for this crisis, was delighted to see him so spiritless, so resourceless, and so humbled before her. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortune of the Rougons] Reference
A largely resourceless U.S. may very well be abandoned the privatized global gangsters for places that are still of strategic value. From Wordnik.com. [Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com] Reference
It is little profit to the landless, resourceless English labourer to know that his ancestor was a yeoman when the Prussian was a serf. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878] Reference
Yet still the strangeness of his situation in such a remote, resourceless place came back as a marvel into the young man's lively mind. From Wordnik.com. [Padre Ignacio; or, the song of temptation] Reference
Too ill and nervous for the store, and too resourceless for the house, he had worried through twelve hours as wearing as any he could recollect. From Wordnik.com. [With the Procession] Reference
Except for the few trusty vassals whom we treated well, and who were all devoted to us, we were becoming more and more isolated and resourceless. From Wordnik.com. [Mauprat] Reference
Herron never admitted it to himself, but in fact it was he who put it into Fanshaw's resourceless mind to compass the revenge of publicity in another way. From Wordnik.com. [The Cost] Reference
As German sociologist Ulrich Beck has pointed out, anxiety and danger have become standard in the life of the resourceless underclass of contemporary society. From Wordnik.com. [english.chosun.com : Total] Reference
What that future landscape will look like, whether that be a sci-fi fantasy creation or a starkly drier, warmer, resourceless planet will largely depend on our actions now. From Wordnik.com. [Examiner California Headlines] Reference
I have no money left; I am resourceless. From Wordnik.com. [evolver Diary Entry] Reference
Comes the resourceless night. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
She was not utterly resourceless. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortieth Door] Reference
Finds him resourceless!. From Wordnik.com. [Our Day In the Light of Prophecy] Reference
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