"Strengthless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... her head, a strengthless despair weighting it down. "The troll stole me away three winters agone. It has tickled her to have a princess for slave—but soon I will roast on her spit, even as ye, ...
— The Valor of Cappen Varra • Poul William Anderson
... bank whereon I lie; These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me, Two strengthless doves will draw me through the sky, From morn to night, even where I list, to ...
— Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants • James H. Head
... course at length; the sails untried Were spread; the raw crew set at spar and coil. Now round the prow Charybdean waters boil And ever higher surges war's red tide. The mate who should the captain's care divide Has strengthless proved. Where shall, the foe to foil, A man be found able to bear the toil And stand, to steer the ship, by ...
— The Poets' Lincoln - Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President • Various
... eyes first beheld thee, Goddess, I knew thee for divine: but not sooth didst thou speak to me. But by Zeus of the AEgis I implore thee, suffer me not to live a strengthless shadow among men, but pity me: for no man lives in strength that ...
— The Homeric Hymns - A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological • Andrew Lang |
