Attic clay Held thy wan dust, and thou hast come again Back to this common world so dull and vain, For thou wert weary of the sunless day, The heavy fields of scentless asphodel, The loveless lips with which men kiss in Hell.
The room was full of flowering plants, delicate white heaths and scentless camellias, in stands marvelously wrought.
Our last example of the sea-side composites is the Sea-side Corn Feverfew or Scentless Mayweed, which is a variety of Matricaria inodora of waste places.
How many years is it since we two have sought the rose-essence of truth and found nothing but the scentless leaves?
She smiled as her eye went from the scentless daisies, so pertly pretty, to her own posy full of perfume, and the half sad, half sweet associations that haunt these blue-eyed flowers.
The leaves of the Scentless Mayweed are like many leaves that grow in running water.
It was a yellow rose, scentless and loveless--an emblem of pleasure and wealth.
When he stretched out his hand to gather the rose that blossomed in his path, a golden flower scentless and stiff was all he grasped.
The dangerous place is the place where the vapours that poison are scentless as well as invisible.
These were scentless and already past their prime; but by the gate at the south-east end of the house the white Banksian, throwing far wider shoots, saluted them with a scent as of violets belated.
For there is the possibility of such thought blending with common motives, like a finer perfume in the scentless air, or some richer elixir in a cup.
There must be definite times of distinct prayer if the aroma of devotion is to be diffused through our else scentless days.
This is all I can find--all the scentless first-fruits of the baby year.
The scentless flame of the geraniums and calceolarias fills, without satisfying my eyes; the gnats' officious hum offends my ears; and thoughts in comparison of which the calceolarias are sweet and the gnats melodious, occupy my mind.
It must be kept in well-closed vessels, as by exposure to the air a portion of its ammonia exhales, and it passes into the state of the scentless bi-carbonate.
It has a peculiar smell, resembling honey, and derived from it, for the cells in which no honey has been deposited, yield a scentless white wax.
Thus kindly I scatter Thy leaves o'er the bed Where thy mates of the garden Lie scentless and dead.
The sun burns sere and the rain dishevels One gaunt bleak blossom of scentless breath.
There it lay at his feet; but it had again become as white and as scentless as all the other flowers in the garden.
Is that the reason why the flowers are all white and scentless here?
That scentless bloom is not the rose of friendship, fair Prince," said the youth, taking the flower from Ulric's hand.
The blood-stained flame that filled the dome, Scentless and silent, shrouded her.
Two spirits abroad in the air, encountering each other and passing into one: the spirit of scentless spring left by melting snows and the spirit of scented summer born with the earliest buds.
Lo, on the Urn how wither'd lies Thy gift--the scentless flower!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scentless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
