Its home The voiceless lightning in these solitudes Keeps innocently and like vapor broods Over the snow.
Another exceptional French usage, -tz for final voiceless -s, is explained at p.
His heart chanted a voiceless strain, which I heard perfectly well:-- "Lascia che io pianga!
They fascinated him, and at the same time the sight of them--straining on ahead of him into a voiceless and empty world--filled him with a strange and overwhelming compassion.
The dead are drifting, yea, are gnawed upon By voiceless children of the stainless sea, Or battered by the surge!
Lo, I see afar Dust, voiceless herald of a host, arise; And hark, within their grinding sockets ring Axles of hurrying wheels!
Far away in the haze stood Fort Sumter,--a fragment of history, a sea warrior of the past, voiceless and guarding forever the viewless.
I fear that we even hustled that imbecile paralytic, who sat like a voiceless Memnon in our midst, gazing with the serene indifference of the Past in his passionate eyes upon our wordy counsels.
And a silence quite as suggestive as the visible desolation was in the voiceless streets that no longer echoed to carriage wheel or footfall.
The bare suggestion of the doubt stamped it on her memory, yet she shrank with horror from the idea, and an eager, voiceless prayer ascended from her heart that she might be shielded from such temptations in future.
All men alike, though voicelessbe the shrine, Abide in God and act by will divine.
Its home The voiceless lightning in these solitudes Keeps innocently, and like vapour broods Over the snow.
Some months after, dragged to the gibbet at the tail of a mule, the black met his voiceless end.
Linda was all alive for the few seconds he needed her, then she sank into her voiceless apathy again, and the short winter afternoon wore away, and there was no change.
They were plain men sometimes, business associates who might have been ill at ease at Crownlands, and voiceless at the dinner table.
Shepherd, singers of the valley, Voiceless now, speed on before; Soon shall knell that chapel bell For the songs you'll sing no more.
Not for Sardinia's plenteous store, Nor for Calabrian herds he prayeth, Nor yet for India's wealth galore, Nor meads wherevoiceless Liris playeth.
On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now-- The heroic bosom beats no more!
The great far-stretching land, voiceless except just over there where birds were still busy and would be busy till all was gone; the cloudless sky, and the shifting shadow of the tree; these were the best company he had.
It was empty now, but nearly always full, and it stood there like a horrible voiceless witness.
There was one fearful thrill of mortal dread, one voiceless cry for strength from Heaven, and Marie Morales stood before Don Luis erect and calm, and firm as in her hour of pride.
I fear that we even hustled that imbecile paralytic, who sat like a voiceless Memnon in our midst, gazing with the serene indifference of the Past in his passionless eyes upon our wordy counsels.
And a silence quite as suggestive as the visible desolation was in the voiceless streets that no longer echoed to carriage-wheel or footfall.
The cattle would not feed; the bearded ravens sat voiceless against the cliffs; the gaunt trees and shrubs seemed to hold up their arms--for the rain that did not come.
This singer was the voice of the night, whose mystic beauty and voiceless feeling surged into the woman's song like waters escaping through a ravine.
For a moment, even the humanity that was hostile to her seemed less cruel than this voiceless solitude.
A general movement which took place in the court seemed to be a voiceless expression of this consensus of opinion.
Then Lord Archibald went on, rendered almost voiceless by contending emotions, "I was there in time; you should have waited.
And he had seen the bright colour spreading to her eyes, and the dark eyes widen to his stare; he had seen the vivid blush, the forced smile, the nod, the voiceless parting of her stiffened lips.
Yet, is it fear which that young heart controuls And leaves its music voiceless on the ear?
Thus while he pray'd, blithe from his bosom flew 61 The guiding Dove, along the frozen plain Of a mute river, winding vale-like through Rocks lost in vapour from the voiceless main.
Slow day on slow day, unrevealing, crept, And still its ice the freezing silence kept: Fear seized my soul, I could no longer brook The voiceless darkness which the daylight took.
Voiceless and wan, we question them in vain; 4 They leave unsolved earth's mighty yesterday.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "voiceless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
