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Nerveless   Listen
adjective
nerveless  adj.  
1.
Destitute of nerves.
2.
Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless. "A kingless people for a nerveless state." "Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream."






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"Nerveless" Quotes from Famous Books



... foot upon the neck of the fallen witch-doctor, the ape-man raised his face to the moon and uttered the long, shrill scream of the victorious bull ape. Then he stooped and snatched the zebra's tail from the nerveless fingers of the unconscious man and without a backward glance retraced ...
— Jungle Tales of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... placed the handles in the nerveless fingers of Mr. Henderson. Then he started the current. In about a minute the eyelids of the aged inventor began to quiver, and, in less than five minutes he had been revived sufficiently to enable him to sit up. He passed his ...
— Five Thousand Miles Underground • Roy Rockwood

... stood up. She smiled sweetly at the men around the table. "Thank you very much, gentlemen," she said. She handed the chips to Malone, who took them in nerveless fingers. "Sir Kenneth," she said, "I hereby appoint you temporary Chancellor of the Exchequer—at least ...
— That Sweet Little Old Lady • Gordon Randall Garrett (AKA Mark Phillips)

... suddenly nerveless, and he dropped the brief case. It was crammed with money, packets of ...
— Lease to Doomsday • Lee Archer

... orange and the dim leaves of the olive; and the small fountains, which, in any other land, would spring merrily along, sparkling and singing among tinkling pebbles, here flow calmly and silently into some pale font of marble, all beautiful with life; worked by some unknown hand, long ago nerveless, and fall and pass on among wan flowers, and scented copse, through cool leaf-lighted caves or gray Egerian grottoes, to join the Tiber or Eridanus, to swell the waves of Nemi, or the Larian Lake. The most minute objects (leaf, flower, ...
— The Poetry of Architecture • John Ruskin


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