Germless

Keep new, germless copies of the bible in a dispensary room available on demand. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Firstly, black-winged Night laid a germless egg in the bosom of the infinite deeps of Erebus, and from this, after the revolution of long ages, sprang the graceful Eros with his glittering golden wings, swift as the whirlwinds of the tempest. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Further, though she loved and cared for them, she knew far less of hygiene than her descendant; she did not try to bring them up in a germless way; and her household activities kept her too busy to allow her to notice each running nose, or each "festering sore." ❋ Abraham Myerson (1914)

In those germless days she had worn bits of broom-straw, plucked from the common sweeping-broom, in the lobes until the holes were healed and ready for little gold rings. ❋ Willa Sibert Cather (1910)

_ I am studying him and, despite his protean manifestations, have discovered three principal ingredients: malaria, bronchitis and hay-fever -- not your ordinary hay-fever, oh, no! but such as a mammoth might conceivably catch, if thrust back from his germless, frozen tundras into the damply blossoming ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)

The streams are germless, and the forest cannot be devastated. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)

Through this land of color, of repose, of romance, the young traveler rode, drinking deep of the germless air, feeling that the girl behind him was a wondrous part of this wild and unaccountable country. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)

He varied the experiment in every direction, but matter in the germless air never yielded life. ❋ Henry Drummond (1874)

If the air were absolutely germless and pure, would the myriad-life appear? ❋ Henry Drummond (1874)

He manipulated his experimental vessels in an atmosphere which under the high test of optical purity -- the most delicate known test -- was absolutely germless. ❋ Henry Drummond (1874)

In contact with germless air the uncontaminated must never ferments. ❋ John Tyndall (1856)

The air which they found inoperative was proved by the luminous beam to be optically pure and therefore germless. ❋ John Tyndall (1856)

I have spoken of the floating dust of the air, of the means of rendering it visible, and of the perfect immunity from putrefaction which accompanies the contact of germless infusions and moteless air. ❋ John Tyndall (1856)