One day he asked his brother how he would like to gather the masterless men of all that neighborhood into a band of soldiery, to live by hunting and by fighting for any chief who would give them their living.
If any one is irked by the condition of a "masterless man," the Roman Catholic Church holds wide its doors for him.
But is it really, to our Western sense, a misfortune to be a masterless man?
Another strove to seize the young Englishman; but striking him fiercely over the head with his sword, Algernon freed himself from his grasp, and springing back, caught a masterless horse that was running near, and vaulted into the saddle.
Suffice it, that he slept without repose; and that agitated feelings, running masterless in unreasoning slumber, wore both body and mind, even during the hours of rest.
Down went the red fez and the shaven head; Turkish sabre and French musket lay masterless on the sand, and many a haughty child of Osman gasped out his welling life-blood to slake the dry Wallachian soil.
It seems to pass without resistance through the air; then the fair moustache is dabbled all in blood, and the Colonel's horse gallops masterless from the field.
The weak became the victims of the strong, and the most powerful were making preparations to divide amongst themselves the masterless and defenceless country.
Sir Francis had ever a sure hand with the women," I said; and then I could have bitten my masterless tongue.
I saw what I had done and would curse the masterless tongue that must needs add its word-thong to the night's whip of scourgings.
I will only say that I understood why Monsieur Vidal's horse was waiting masterless in the grove, and that I hoped he had met this terrible fate with sprightliness and courage, as a good Frenchman ought.
In a flash they were upon the Emperor's horses, and their own left masterless by the roadside.
And is not the condition of the laboring poor of other countries too often that of masterless slaves!
An intelligent English traveler has characterized as the most miserable and degraded of all beings, "a masterless slave.
As "masterless women," widows in England have received similar contemptuous treatment as accorded single women, to whom that country long showed such barbarity.
My lord 'tis true our wars be ended I thank God, and we may sheathe our swords at last, but the woods be full of Black Ivo's scattered soldiery, with outlaws and other masterless men.
Sir, I am a masterless man henceforth, for an I hang not men for Sir Pertolepe, so will Sir Pertolepe assuredly hang me.
Some jackanapes or other I read once, said every woman wanted a master, and was as forlorn without a husband as a masterless dog.
Its a great, deal truer that every man wants a mother; men are more forlorn than masterless dogs, a great deal, when no woman cares for them.
But secretly each one of the masterless men with the words has hope, or has had hope, that the miracle may be wrought again through him.
The Masterless Man With the Magic of the Necessary Words, and the Record of the Tribe.
It is the story of the tribe, told, not by the men of action, who are dumb, but by the masterless men who possess the magic of the necessary words.
Even to-day, when all is done, those who have done it must wait until all has been said by the masterless man with the words.
If not, the foul opinion You had of her pure honour gains or loses Your sword or mine, or masterless leaves both To who shall find them.
What mean these masterless and gory swords To lie discolour'd by this place of peace?
Among the most engaging of those fables that make the conventional background of German history is the academic legend of a free agricultural village community made up of ungraded and masterless men.
Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.
All the masterless Bhuttia rogues on both sides of the border were sharpening their dahs and looking down greedily on the fertile plains below.
Pools of sad memories they were now, looking out wistfully and patiently upon a masterless world.
Lord Provost, who was concerned about such braw things as the restoration of the old cathedral and letting the sun into the ancient tenements, should be much interested in a small, masterless dog.
Mr. Traill watched him, for if any chance late comer opened the door the masterless little dog would be out into the perils of the street.
Masterless dogs have become a serious nuisance in the city.
What a car of juggernaut to roll over one, small, masterless terrier!
Indifferent at the moment as to what was done to him, Bobby continued to gaze up and out, wistfully and patiently, upon this masterless world.
As servant of a European, far from any place where he was likely to be recognized, Jack thought he would probably reach Harbin more quickly than as a masterless Chinese fugitive.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "masterless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
