His powerful left arm, driving the double-razor-edged dirk in short, resistless arcs, managed to keep the snaky tendrils from coiling about his right arm, which was wielding the heavy, trenchant sword. ❋ Unknown (1927)
Little wonder, therefore, that his amazing eloquence was described as a resistless torrent. ❋ Grenville Kleiser (1910)
Hum, thou art damnable handsome to Night, Charles -- Ay, thou wilt do't; I see a kind of resistless Leudness about thee, a most triumphant Impudence, loose and wanton. ❋ Unknown (1682)
Hum, thou art damnable handsome to Night, _Charles_ -- Ay, thou wilt do't; I see a kind of resistless Leudness about thee, a most triumphant Impudence, loose and wanton. ❋ Aphra Behn (1664)
Once, however, when some allusion was made to a comic scene in a new play then just brought out, wherein she had performed to the life the character of a low-bred lady's-maid passing herself off as her mistress, Miss Kelly arose, and with a kind of resistless ardour repeated a few sentences so inimitably that everybody laughed as much as if the real lady's-maid, and not the actress, had been before them; while she who had so well personated the part quietly resumed her seat without the least sign of merriment, as grave as possible. ❋ Harold Begbie (1900)
You cannot comprehend its resistless fascination for me. ❋ Michael J. Ybarra (2011)
There is however, another enemy (though in some cases my dearest friend) whose power is resistless, and whose visits are perpetually made known by a rising of the stomack, and a redundance of water in the eyes. ❋ Unknown (2009)
My limbs now tremble, and my eyes swim with the remembrance; but then a resistless, and almost frantic impulse, urged me forward; I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit. ❋ Unknown (2010)
My limbs now tremble, and my eyes swim with the remembrance; but then a resistless, and almost frantic, impulse, urged me forward; I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It is a super sort whichever way you countenance at it, and resistless to actualize how some grouping is populating the globe of Azeroth where the mettlesome of Warcraft takes place. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Wreak a desolation which shall slowly consume this world, inescapable, unstoppable, resistless. ❋ L.J. SMITH (2010)
Then all sensation of motion vanished, as the balloon shot upward into the resistless atmosphere. ❋ Johnny Pez (2010)
But America is also expansive, restless, resistless, with bottomless appetites. ❋ Ozersky, Josh (2009)
Camilla, struck, amazed, and delighted, involuntarily embraced her brother; though, recollecting herself amost at the same moment, she endeavoured to turn oft the resistless impulse into taking leave, and hurrying him away. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Those exquisite little moments we steal from any given occupation, for the pleasure of speculating in secret upon something wholly foreign to it, are resistless to deliciousness. ' ❋ Unknown (2008)
She found it rather playful than satirical; rather seeking to amuse than to disconcert; and though sometimes, from the resistless pleasure of uttering a bon mot she thought more of its brilliancy than of the pain it might inflict, this happened but rarely, and was more commonly succeeded by regret than by triumph. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The chain of thinking which, from painting what he thought insensible in Indiana led him to describe what he felt to be resistless in Camilla, made him finish the last sentence with an energy that surprised Mr. Tyrold into a smile. ❋ Unknown (2008)
'I believe he may safely,' she answered, 'be left to himself; though it is plain that, at this moment, he is in a difficulty as great as your own; for marriage he still resists, though he finds you resistless. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Only may Zeus, throned on high, keep jealousy, resistless foe, from thee for thy presumptuous words! ❋ Unknown (2008)
Old age, resistless foe, how do I loathe thy presence! ❋ Unknown (2008)
