Senseless

Examples

• Myths must be judged as instruments for acting upon present conditions; all discussion about the manner of applying them concretely to the course of history is senseless. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• If she seemed to be senseless, they would not take her life. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• This phrase, in its senseless arrogance, quite cured me of the temporary weakness which had made me relax my tone and aspect. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He set that senseless woman to watch me outside, Marian! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It seemed to be one of those senseless acts of Hooliganism which occur from time to time, and it was reported to the constable on the beat as such. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Why should I fret about this senseless, heartless being? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• She answered that it was some senseless practical joke, and that I should not take any notice of it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• At the last clause of this announcement a senseless anger swelled the young man's breast. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Their exertions did not relax till the doctor arrived, when one by one, the senseless three were taken upstairs and put into warm beds. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But no mad or senseless person can be a friend of God. Plato. The Republic.
• No, you remember that she was senseless at the moment when the bottle was opened. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The senseless chatter of the young men at mess was more than ever jarring. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Armed with supernatural strength, he waded through the sand, until, exhausted with fatigue and thirst, he fell senseless on the earth. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Here the spinster aunt uttered a loud shriek, and became senseless. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• She saw her prey--the two women--lying senseless upon the floor. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The night was dark, and I fell into a culvert and was knocked senseless. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And yet he did care something for the streets that environed that house, and for the senseless stones that made their pavements. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• And thus the ill-starred girl died a victim to my senseless rashness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The talk swept past Archer like some senseless river running and running because it did not know enough to stop. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• My father had fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• You are almost as much a riddle as is Crispin, said Maurice, chafing at this secrecy, which seemed to be so senseless. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The senseless legend of German superiority did much to exacerbate the irritations of the Poles in Posen and the French in Lorraine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• What was this outpouring of senseless bitterness but the tracked creature's attempt to cloud the medium through which it was fleeing? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must have been senseless for a long time. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• He started up, and beheld his sister senseless on the earth, weltering in a stream of blood that gushed from her mouth. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• One of my senseless tricks! Jane Austen. Emma.
• But he will not know I am ill till I am gone, and he will come when they have laid me out, and I am senseless, cold, and stiff. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• One of the fellows, enraged at my interference, struck me with his bayonet in the side, and I fell senseless. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She lay there, a distressed, unsheltered, senseless creature. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The senseless spirit of conquest and thirst of spoil blinded them, while with insane fury they deluged the country in ruin. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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