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Example sentences for "resistlessly"

Lexicographically close words:
resisters; resisteth; resisting; resistive; resistless; resists; resk; reskew; resks; resky
  1. Thereupon, exhausted, she shall yearn resistlessly for that beautiful Youth (Christ).

  2. But the boat resistlessly made its way to the landing-place.

  3. The power to move at will was for ever lost, the force that had driven her resistlessly along the chosen path was still.

  4. This gorge, toward which the Doraine was being resistlessly drawn, appeared to be but little wider than the ship itself.

  5. Riga, on the Dwina, soon fell into the hands of the Poles, and their banners were resistlessly on the advance.

  6. He was pressing on resistlessly towards Moscow, and had arrived within a few days' march of the Russian army on the banks of the Oka, when suddenly he stopped, and remained fifteen days without moving from his encampment.

  7. In the marvelous campaign of Ulm the Austrian army was crushed, almost annihilated, and the victorious battalions of Napoleon marched resistlessly to Vienna.

  8. They rapidly and resistlessly ascended the valley of this river, marking their path by a swath of ruin many miles in width.

  9. The great snake shifted so resistlessly that Manuel was forced back toward the fire and toward a doom more dreadful than burning: and the firelight was in the snake's contemptuous wise eyes.

  10. As may well be imagined, the natives did not all yield resistlessly to their tyrants.

  11. The charge of the returning cavaliers created a temporary check, and a feeble rally was made, but the flood of foes soon came on again and drove them resistlessly back.

  12. The clouds which had been dripping down upon us were rent apart to reveal a long streamer of blue, and to give passage to a shaft of sunlight which drove resistlessly through the mist floor.

  13. The river was swollen with three days' tropical downpour and running out resistlessly in the teeth of a high tide.

  14. A hand stole into his and drew him resistlessly into the shadows.

  15. Perchance the right man, had he appeared on the stage in time, might have made her gentle and quelled the wild passions that tossed her resistlessly about, like a barque in a hurricane.

  16. Resistlessly she felt herself taken up and carried to a chariot, which was waiting a short space away.

  17. The younger man for the moment was swept resistlessly on by the spell of his eloquence.

  18. Instinctively and resistlessly she moved to meet him.

  19. The armies of Spain were soon sweeping resistlessly through these sunny valleys, and one half of her empire was ruthlessly torn from the Queen of Navarre, and transferred to the dominion of imperious Castile and Aragon.

  20. But the Protestants, with sinewy arms, hewed down their effeminate foes, and with infantry and cavalry swept to and fro resistlessly over the plain.

  21. Not only that, but he was resistlessly advancing, when more reinforcements arrived and attacked him just as he reached a wheatfield and grove of woods on the western side of Plum Run.

  22. But he was grievously mistaken, for the Confederates were rapidly reinforced, as was discovered the next day, when the battle was renewed and pressed resistlessly against the Federals.

  23. Then it began once more and led her resistlessly forward.

  24. And still, the soft advance that leads straight to Homes pressed resistlessly on.

  25. There was, at least, a kind of terror among the mingled sensations, as Angela beheld the second event resistlessly approaching.

  26. Each belligerent, standing up for national life, was resistlessly coerced to fight to the last.

  27. But the current, without his being aware of it, was carrying him resistlessly and rapidly on into the anti-abolition career in which his life ended.

  28. You will find it to be the rule that the struggle for existence develops in every community an instinct which resistlessly prompts to the maintenance of its great economic interest.

  29. The negro tends resistlessly to a fixed position in his own class.

  30. You would have burned that book rather than have entrusted it to my care, if your heart had not resistlessly drawn you toward me.

  31. The helm is broken, the oars refuse their service, and the very portion of my nature that was steel and iron, most resistlessly obeys the attraction of the magnet, and really assists in making keel and deck spring asunder.

  32. Pressing resistlessly forward, Napoleon reached Burgos on the night of the 11th.

  33. The man who owns land, though the portion may be small, is almost resistlessly impelled to cultivate it.

  34. On pressed the red line resistlessly and with never a pause, leaving behind them friend and foe strewn upon the grass, and on, ever in front, went the officers and the colours into the heart of the struggling mass of grey.

  35. But find them where you would, there was about the men a careless pervading bonhomie and a natural high tone resistlessly attractive, yet speaking them worthy descendants of the "Golden Horse Shoe Knights.

  36. Now we were thrown to one side, again to the other, dragging resistlessly beside the sleds.

  37. As was learned later, he had just tied his sledge to a rock when a gust of wind resistlessly rushed seaward, lifted the aged man from his feet, and dropped him into the sea.

  38. Had he been on shore he would have fled to the solitude of a forest; but here he was resistlessly impelled to that other solitude--a crowd.

  39. He felt, as he had never felt before, the pressure of that terrible power that over all and through all the discords and sins of life makes resistlessly for righteousness.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "resistlessly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.