Lawless

Examples

• The lawless Bedouins in the Valley of the Jordan and the deserts down by the Dead Sea were up in arms, and were going to destroy all comers. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He is seduced into the life of pleasure, and becomes a lawless person and a rogue. Plato. The Republic.
• Above all, he was remorseless and unyielding in the pursuit of any object of desire, however lawless. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The suiters of Penelope are, by the same ancient poet, described as a set of lawless men, who were regardless of the sacred rites of hospitality. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• We never saw a human being on the whole route, much less lawless hordes of Bedouins. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In lawless hands, indeed, but not in those of love! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The interest you cherish is lawless and unconsecrated. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He thought that change or alteration was evidence of lawless flux; that true reality was unchangeable. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The Irish followed their track in disorganized multitudes; each day encreasing; each day becoming more lawless. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• So very rapidly there went on a process of political crystallization in the confused and lawless sea into which the Western Empire had liquefied. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When I recovered my sight--eternal God of this lawless world! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Notwithstanding my lawless habits, my disposition was sociable, hers recluse. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Such is democracy;--a pleasing, lawless, various sort of government, distributing equality to equals and unequals alike. Plato. The Republic.
• In after life I looked back with wonder to what I then was; how utterly worthless I should have become if I had pursued my lawless career. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

Typist: Louis