And if at times an evil strain, To lawless love appealing, Broke in upon the sweet refrain Of pure and healthful feeling, It died upon the eye and ear, No inward answer gaining; No heart had I to see or hear The discord and the staining.
The Federal Government cannot escape the necessity of performing this duty, of suppressing and destroying the lawless power which assails it, and permitting the Southern people to return to the Union.
The instinct of self-preservation, which is but the impulse of a solemn duty, would necessarily and rightfully lead it to suppress the lawlessforce that assailed it.
He never accompanied the lawless mirth of his companions with more than a smile, but his conduct was the same as ours.
Maxwell was stimulated by revenge, and by a lawless passion, to convert this confidence into a source of guilt.
According to German custom, it was minute and diffuse, and dictated by an adventurous and lawless fancy.
Love, the mighty and lawless passion, came into the sanctuary of the maid's pure breast, and the dove of peace fled away forever.
In the old lawless times these rooms served as a refuge; they are capacious and receive the light of day.
No door could we see or opening on to the ground, only a lofty verandah with a ladder, a feature which recalled the old lawless times.
The old lawless times are passing into legend, thanks to the vigorous rule of the Tsars.
We never yet had a government in this country of sufficient energy to restrain the lawless and indigent.
Lawless outbreaks became common, and in Massachusetts culminated in actual rebellion.
High in his eyrie Nicanor laughed, with a flash of his oldlawless triumph.
In his first words he had struck the chord which answered true in them, these lawless sea-rovers; they were his to play upon as a musician on his lyre.
For in the north were skulking bands of Picts and Scots, lawless and undisciplined, seized with the contagion of excitement which stirred their neighbors.
During the lawless confusion of the feudal ages, the right of making Reprisals was claimed and exercised, with out a Public Commission.
Under the best regulations the business tends strongly to blunt the sense of private right, and to nourish a lawless and fierce spirit of rapacity.
Undoubtedly many of these lawlessbands are composed of former revolutionists, who are driven to extremes by want of food and the necessities of life.
We're being driven by circumstances utterly beyond our control from the side of the lawless to the side of the lawful and benevolent.
Occasionally from sheer weariness he relinquished the wheel to Archie, whose disposition to respect the posted warnings against lawless haste evoked the Governor's most contemptuous criticism.
It was clear that the élite among the lawless might ride the high crest of social success.
The lawlessprofligacy of Francesco Cenci first began seriously to attract public attention under the pontificate of Gregory XIII.
These are lawless times, and I dare say Maloney's cabin will be full of roughs.
For who in these lawless days would dare defy or call in question the all-powerful Land League?
Thou burnest us, a supple Flow of tortured flame, Raging, biting, searing, Lawless of the will.
She knew him to be utterly lawless in most things, and yet toward her he had shown scrupulous restraint.
A flag of truce sent to rebels--to men engaged in lawless insurrection, in treasonable hostility to the Government, with a view to its overthrow!
The authentic record of life in the colonies of Australia and Tasmania during the first few years of their existence, is mainly the account of the control of lawless men by the strong and cruel arm of military despotism.
Old stone watch-towers line the shore at regular intervals, and coast-guard houses sheltering squads of soldiers, for this region is famous as the resort of smugglers and lawless bands of rovers.
The place was next infested by a lawless community of smugglers and banditti, who made it their headquarters, whence to sally forth and lay the neighboring plains under contribution.
There, also, Antonio Garra and his lawless band made their assault, and were repulsed by Long John, who escaped on horseback, leaving in his wake four or five dead Indians.
It is a curious fact, however, and one which gives a strange indication of the lawless state of the times, that no one imagined the absence of Lucy de Ashby could proceed from any ordinary accident.
His conduct in the political arena has been that of a shameless and lawless gamester.
The democracy of France, checked in its course or abandoned to its lawless passions, has overthrown whatever crossed its path, and has shaken all that it has not destroyed.
On other occasions his lawless propensities broke out with a violence which Elizabeth herself was scarcely able to restrain.
A few years ago it was the head quarters of lawless and bloody men.
The school was now dismissed, and the scholars left to enjoy their full swing of lawless liberty.
When they were not absent on one of these expeditions, the City of Regos swarmed with them and so became a dangerous place for any peaceful person to live in, for the warriors were as lawless as their King.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lawless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
