That, both daughter to a Peer, And most rich and lovely were; When a brainless Gull should dare In her favours with him share; Or the action of a Player Rob him of a hope so fair.
What though her dowry be but meagre, Far better wise, God-fearing Igir, Than yonder vain and brainless doll, Helpless her fortune to control.
In workaday reality it is the lowest of passions, which is set alight by the most artistic nose and mouth, and it matters not if its object is vile, low, or brainless to idiocy, so long as it has these attributes.
Yet his was an intelligent silence, not of that wooden brainless description which casts a damper on company, neither was it of the morose or dreaming order.
To be the husband of a brainless little fool, a worthless creature who, a minute ago.
Thérèse was too proud to admit a feeling of jealousy towards this little brainless creature.
Standing aloof from the ideas and tendencies of his times and not a sweeper of the chords that stir in human nature the heroic or the pathetic, it is none the less uncritical to rank this Spaniard as a brainless technician.
The perching of brainless birds, for instance, at once refers us to the roosting of sleeping birds, where the reflex mechanism concerned is clearly of high adaptive value.
Goltz found that his brainless dogs, when wetted with water, would shake themselves as dry as possible, in just the same way as normal dogs will do under similar circumstances.
We meet with a closely analogous reflex mechanism inbrainless vertebrata of other kinds; but these do not furnish such good test cases, because the possibility of natural selection cannot be so efficiently attenuated.
I, however, married a heartless fool, and it would have been mad folly to risk my life with a brainless fop for her sake.
But he could not see its simplicity and kept on talking with sugary rounded phrases about Borodino and the sacred fire, and my uncle, and the forgotten poet who wrote bad, insincere verses, and he called me a brainless fool.
Do try to understand, you idiot, and get it into your brainless head, that in addition to physical strength you have a divine spirit; a sacred fire, by which you are distinguished from an ass or a reptile and bringing you nigh to God.
The life you lead is a brainless life, brainless and vulgar.
You may say that those people were honestly mistaken;--such honesty is the brand of a brainless obstructive.
You said I was neither brainless nor heartless; then added that you had spoiled my life merely for one evening.
It is seen that the immaterial spirit wins the greater triumphs,--that the brainless giant, compared with the dwarf of trained intelligence, can accomplish little.
Upon these texts of scripture which I have just read rest the thrones of Europe, and these are the voices that are repeated from age to age by brainless kings and heartless kings.
Unlike so many young Romans of the more leisured classes, Silvio Rossano had never been content to lead a useless and brainless existence.
A word here, and a word there, and she would soon learn that there is somebody who loves her--somebody who would make her a better husband than some brainlessidiot of her own class, who will only want her money and her lands.
He had naturally considerable talents, and an almost dangerous facility in them; but he might have been asbrainless as a mollusk, for any exertion he gave his brain.
Tis thus a brainless magistrate Is honour'd for his robe of state.
Tis said of brainlessheads in France, The cause of what they do is chance.
She could not suffer herself to realize that I was one of thebrainless young savages, creatures with claws and fangs.
She first frightened me by remarking that duels were the pastime of brainless young men.
Many of you boys chase powdered creatures, who are as brainless as they are hopeless.
And I am sure you will not waste your leisure hours with those brainlessgirls who are always luring young men into wicked paths.
Off he went, swinging his cane in a brainless manner, and leaving behind him a well of hate and scorn.
I don't know whose brainless head it may be, but it'll do for my collection.
His blunders, garrulity, and brainless labor, however, would transform Izaak Walton himself into a dragon of irritability.
Satan himself could scarcely produce a more complete absence of devotion than is often caused by these brainless creatures.
And there was no doubt whatever that her presentable butbrainless young husband had fostered this fallacious conviction.
How different from Glenerne, with its brainless vamping and its bawled choruses from The Scottish Students' Song Book!
A brainless sister I can bear with, but one without any head at all would be rather too much.
He would belong to a brainless club, and his wife would give brainless dinner parties.
Perhaps we are afflicted at times with brainless monarchs and are to be pitied.
Nobody but a gaunt, brainless creature, like the Cat there, would risk his neck for a whiff of that horrible-smelling stuff.
It's onlybrainless Animals who tackle things they know nothing about.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brainless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
