Deedless

Exercising genuine choice has to be based on grounds; otherwise it is a dumb, deedless expression of momentary desire. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2008)

And no stir in her folded linen and the deedless hands on her knees: ❋ Various (N/A)

With half-closed lips untrembling, with deedless hands and cold ❋ Various (N/A)

His action was motivated by his hatred of a world in which something is constantly going on, and in the midst of which he was condemned to an inactive and deedless life. ❋ Jakob Wassermann (1903)

It would be very ill if he should chance to lose the play -- though of this he had no fear, for he was held the strongest man in Iceland and the most skilled in all feats of strength -- and, at the best, no fame is to be won from the overthrow of a deedless man, and the plucking out of his eye. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

In the deedless dark he rideth, and all things he remembers save one, ❋ Conrad Hjalmar Nordby (1883)

His aristocracy does not sit in a corner, deedless and meritless, brooding over a transmitted name and sucking the orange of empty self-conceit: it is the aristocracy of achievement and of nature -- the solid superiority of having done the brightest and best deeds that could be done in his time and of being the greatest man of his generation. ❋ William Winter (1876)

Nor the clear-eyed hero hasten to the deedless ending of day. ❋ William Morris (1865)

'But,' said Face-of-god, 'of one thing ye may be sure, that these men will not abide our pleasure till we cut them all off in scattered bands, nor will they sit deedless at home. ❋ William Morris (1865)

But thou, a deedless man, too much thou eggest me: ❋ William Morris (1865)

Nor be mocked of the dead men for deedless and pale. ❋ William Morris (1865)

Till the light of a deedless dawning o'er dream and terror rushed; ❋ William Morris (1865)

For here day and night toileth the summer lest deedless his time pass away. ❋ William Morris (1865)

Amazed the garth of murder stared deedless on his face; ❋ William Morris (1865)

And here we ride together, deedless, a man and a maid of whom no tale may be told. ❋ William Morris (1865)

But that deedless tide of the grave-mound, and the dayless nightless day, ❋ William Morris (1865)

And good were the days thereafter of utter deedless rest ❋ William Morris (1865)

So he took a steed and all that night he rode alone in the deedless dark, and all the morrow, very heavy at heart yet knowing no cause for grief, and remembering all things save Brynhild. ❋ William Morris (1865)