The short days and the infrequent sun on lonely songless lands.
To the poets the river fails them, it becomes flat and songless where at Richmond the sea's remote influence just moves it; and there they leave it.
And yet, we are told, this is a land of songless birds.
Yet there are some who talk of Australia as a land of songless birds.
Songless Perching-Birds, made up mainly of South American birds, though two families are included that are represented in the Australian region--viz.
She turned back towards the town, and as they walked in the double silence of their own hushed tongues and the songless and voiceless world, the fingers of the little ones closed tightly upon her own.
And still she haunts those woodland ways, Though all fond fancy finds there now To mind of spring or summer days, Are sodden trunk and songless bough.
To yon grim meeting-house they fared, With thoughts as sober as their speech, To voiceless prayer, to songless praise, To hear the elders preach.
The young wind slumbers; all the little birds That sang about us in the fields of morn Are songless now; no happy flight of words On Love's lip hovers--Love has waxed to noon.
Defn: Destitute of the power of song; without song; as, songless birds; songless woods.
We are Christians here: and we only gather the reeds of the river to bruise them and break them, and thrust them, songless and dead, in the name of our Lord.
There hast thou all thy will of thought and sight, All hope for harvest, and all heaven for flight; The sunrise of whose golden-mouthed glad head To paler songless ghosts was heat and light.
While the Flycatchers are therefore technically classed as songless birds, it does not follow that they have no songs.
We too are island-born; Oh, leave us not in scorn -- A songless people never yet was great.
Poem: Song In The Songless They have no song, the sedges dry, And still they sing.
IV The year is lapsing into time Along a deep and songless gloom, Unchapleted of leaf or bloom.
While o’er the snows the seasons chime Their golden hopes to reillume The brief eclipse about the tomb, The year is lapsing into time Along a deep and songless gloom Unchapleted of leaf or bloom.
And mute between the dusk and prime The diligent earth resets her loom,-- The year is lapsing into time Along a deep and songless gloom.
It almost seems, boys, as if birds made the seasons--as if winter in the Middle and Northern States might be called the 'songless season.
They belong to an entirely songless group, but have several ways of calling and signalling to each other.
The first family of Songless Perching Birds is that of the Tyrant Flycatchers, and the first of these birds with which we have to do is the one you have just seen.
If you should wake up some morning and experience the ghastly silence of a songless world you would want to hire somebody to thrash you that you ever used a sling-shot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "songless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
