Lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality.
1 The wrong-doers followed that by which they were made sapless , and were guilty.
2 The carcass becomes a sapless mummy, a mere bit of leather.
3 Adversity has shaken them all like dead leaves from sapless branches.
4 They could never have made his sapless nature break into leafage.
5 They chew hungrily at the sapless fibre of the dead reed-stalks.
6 The mimosa trees, sapless and dry, are thick with thorns.
7 There is life always, even in the dry fir-cone that looks so brown and sapless .
8 Yet, in the end, the sapless tree must fall.
9 Vegetation, even the most dry and sapless , scarcely exists.
10 He came to meet them on his crutches, a smile on his yellow, sapless face.
11 What a sapless , fibreless thing is a man untrained by endurance and untaught by suffering!
12 Marley stared open-mouthed at David for a moment, and then relapsed into his sapless official manner.
13 Youth and beauty fly swift away, while sapless old age expels the wanton loves and gentle sleep.
14 But that happens when you are hoary and sapless , and when nothing under the sun delights you.'
15 Between these two extremes might be found about five feet ten of humanity, lank, sapless , and stooping.
16 Was it for this I condescended to take you to my bed, you poor, withered, sapless twig?
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