It was a painful thing to leave them there Within the useless light and stirless air.
NO MORE ADIEU Unconscious on thy lap I lay, A spiritual thing, Stirless until the yet unlooked-for day Of human birth Should call me from thy starry twilight, Earth.
I could not see your face except the lovely Curve of the pale cheek; Your head was bent as though your stirless slumber Was sea-like heavy and deep.
I wonder at your patience, stirless peace, Your subtle pride, mute pity's quick release.
That tree upon the unchanging hill am I, Alone upon the dark unwhispering hill:-- You in the stirlesscold past lie, But I ache warm and lonely still.
Yet in that lake was seen the duplicate, stirlesssky above.
See, how the same hillside, the same line of forest trees, the same ranges and mountain peaks are reflected back from the stirless bosom of the lake.
The evening was calm, and the lake slept in stirless beauty before us.
Only the slow, musical cry of the hound echoes through the stirless air, which seems to sparkle like the snow, as if filled with gleaming frost-dust that only the moonlight can catch and set to glancing silvery-bright.
Arrived in her bedroom, leaning from the window looking out upon the stirless night, she admonished herself mutely.
In her little room Haru lay as stirless as a sleeping flower.
Still the man who had witnessed that farewell sat crouched in his seat in the forward car, stirlessand pallid.
Somewhere in the air, stirless and humid, there rested a faint, weedy smell like a steaming sea-growth in a tidal ooze.
With his pallid face, his stirless attitude, his great white fingers clutching the arms of the chair, he suggested some enormous, sprawling batrachian awaiting its more active prey.
No one who has not dwelt in southern climes can form an idea of this stirless silence, unbroken by the lightest zephyr.
We hope no solace from the throng; Our torture is to bear, Stirless and mute, a lone life long, The presence of Despair.
You will need a stirlessmidsummer dusk; and if you can hear the thin, fine squeak as the creature dives near your head, you may be sure your ears are almost as keen as those of the fox.
IX A few other bird-notes that are associated with hot days and stirless woods, and that will be worth your hearing are the tree-top song of the scarlet tanager.
The sun sank down from branch to branch; a bird Singing among the stirless leaves was heard.
Had it been a bear, or a sea-lion, or any creature which my mind could instantly have associated with this white and stirless desolation, I might have been startled indeed; but no such amazement could have possessed me as I now felt.
You may talk of the solitude of a Selkirk, but surely the spirit of loneliness in him could not rival the unutterable emotion of solitariness that filled my mind as I sent my gaze over those miles of frozen stirless whiteness.
It strangely and importunately entered my head to conceive, that though those men were frozen and stirless they were not dead as corpses are, but as a stream whose current, checked by ice, will flow when the ice is melted.
The boat was now three lengths away; twenty--fifty; out on the bosom of the stirless water.
How easy to praise the poor, deaf, stirless clay when sense and spirit have fled from it forever!
Voiceless and viewless, stirless and wordless, he kept his station behind the pile of flowers.
Emanuel might have passed within reach of my arm: had he passed silent and unnoticing, silent and stirless should I have suffered him to go by.
The trees have bent above me like tall lovers, The stars return their slow, familiar way, And a great, stirless quiet comes and covers The traveller resting at the end of day.
Instantly ahead of me they whirled again' and before I could think, off across the path was another rush and whirl--then stirless silence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stirless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
