A dreary land you then will see Without a hill or brook or tree, A hundred leagues, bare, wild, and dread In lifeless desolation, spread.
He seized a club of ponderous weight That lay before him by the gate, Rushed at the fiends that hemmed him round, And laid them lifeless on the ground.
Soon as the Lord who rules the sky Saw the dread monsterlifeless lie, He called aloud, Well done!
With hopeful words their minds deceive, And let our trembling hosts believe They see no giant, but, displayed, A lifeless engine deftly made.
If Ráma be anointed, I This very day will surely die, Before thy face will poison drink, And lifelessat thy feet will sink.
O, hero, at thy lifeless feet Here with my boy I take my seat, As some sad mother of the herd, By the fierce lion undeterred, Lies moaning by the grassy dell Wherein her lord and leader fell.
Still lingering on thy lifeless face I see the pride of royal race: Thus when the sun has set, his glow Still rests upon the Lord of Snow.
Lead forth the royal lady: go Her husband’s lifelessbody show.
Quick to the monarch’s side they came, And saw and touched his lifeless frame; One cry, O husband!
Hard is my heart and wrought of steel That breaks not with the crushing blow, Or in the pangs this day I feel My lifeless frame had sunk below.
Clasping her husband’s lifeless clay A while the weeping votaress lay, Till chamberlains removed her thence O’ercome by sorrow’s violence.
The forest cathedral which they defiled seemed lifeless in the hushed stillness of the afternoon as the sun rode down toward its setting.
He repeated the words in a mystified manner, as under the compulsion of her gaze he drew out the incriminating bodies of the lifeless victims.
It exploded, and the ball lodging in the angle of his right eye, he fell back a lifeless corpse.
Tito, it would not be useless for us to speak openly," said Romola, with the sort of exasperation that comes from using living muscle against some lifeless insurmountable resistance.
He was lying lifeless in the street from starvation," said Romola.
And when can so happy a thing be said of a lifeless oil-painting?
They are so possessed by the one thing at a time as never to be habitual in any lifeless sense.
No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs and shade my lifeless face; One would not sure be frightful when one's dead.
But three of those upon whom it had shone only an hour earlier, were now stretched cold and lifeless on the sands; while the mourning survivors were hanging in heartfelt grief over the bodies of the two friends and the negro sailor.
These conceptions, which bridge the chasm between the particles of lifeless matter and the living world, unite in the more general conception of Nature.
Roman poetry was the living heir, not the lifeless reproduction of the genius of Greece.
We seem to pass 'per saltum' from the chaos of lifeless elements to the perfect order and manifold life of our system.
Wallace avoided the blow; and, before he could recover his unwieldy weapon, laid him lifeless at his feet.
One of them, advancing towards the offender, received a blow on the head, which laid him lifeless across the body of the jester.
The lifeless and the living, the physical and the mental, the individual and the social, all had been conquered by analytical methods.
He is now being sought for," went on Ostrov in the same lifeless way.
The dead, pressed from behind by the Cossacks' horses, became a confused, wavering mass, and answered with malignant laughter to the blows of the nagaikas upon their lifeless bodies.
The moon now looked straight into Piotr's handsome face, which seemed pale and strange in the cold, lifeless light.
An illiterate patchwork of lifeless and uninteresting scribbling appeared under my byline day after day in the Intelligencer.
For it is he that has done this, and the white face and lifeless eye are saying to him that he has slain a man.
He is gone before the young lady, who knows of one still nearer, can be alive to his action, or to anything but the white face and lifeless hand Achilles licks in vain.
Someone had sent for Mrs. Hay, who was silently, tearfully chafing the limp and almost lifeless hands of a girl in Indian garb.
So she ended her thoughts with a hope; her head nodded lower, and she slept the deep, deep sleep of the exhausted mind and the lifeless body.
Out of the nerveless fingers of Pierre the revolver slipped and crushed a dead twig on the ground, and a pair of lifeless eyes stared up to Dick Wilbur.
Yet what we write represents the essential fact--Estremadura is a barren lifelesswilderness and offers no more attraction to naturalist than to agriculturist.
The teeming pajaréras, or heronries, at the Rocina de la Madre and in Doñana were left lifeless and abandoned.
Both master and dog were merely inert masses of rigid muscle and stiffened sinew, and yet the bread was still held by the lifeless hand.
As if by some magic discipline the rude, effective litters were rapidly made ready, and the two seemingly lifeless bodies gently lifted from off the ground and deposited carefully within.
Your father heard the shot, and sprang toward the sound, only to fall headlong across my father's lifeless body.
As these caught sight of the little party approaching, there were shouts of derision, which swelled into triumph when they perceived Hampton's apparently lifeless form, and Mason leaning in weakness on the arm of a trooper.
