He stretched out to gather more, trying to hold it, to capture it as it slipped away, leaving him strengthless as he slid to his knees on the kitchen tiles, toppling into a black velvet void. ❋ Nancy Gideon (2010)
Dee would scream a little, always eyes on the worm, and run slowly, as if strengthless, a panicked smile on her lips. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And he came forth from the hall with wearied knees and sat on the threshold of the courtyard; and a dark stupor covered him, and it seemed that the earth reeled round beneath his feet, and he lay in a strengthless trance, speechless. ❋ Unknown (2008)
But even as some huge pine, high up on the mountains, which woodmen have left half hewn through by their sharp axes when they returned from the forest — at first it shivers in the wind by night, then at last snaps at the stump and crashes down; so Talos for a while stood on his tireless feet, swaying to and fro, then at last, all strengthless, fell with a mighty thud. ❋ Unknown (2008)
During this horrible moment, I kicked at him with strengthless legs and made a hoarse noise, not yet quite a scream. ❋ Unknown (2005)
He woke in the morning so unrefreshed and strengthless that he sent for the doctor. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He was drowsing, white and strengthless, when she heard the ❋ Unknown (2004)
Yet are these feet, whose strengthless stay is numb, ❋ Unknown (2004)
Two strengthless doves will draw me through the sky, ❋ Unknown (2004)
I have wrestled with my soul till I am strengthless. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Alone, a maid is nought, a strengthless arm. strophe 2 ❋ Unknown (2002)
Instead, he felt his whole body arch in a single unexpected seizure, and his grip on the hatchway went suddenly numb and strengthless. ❋ L.A Graf (2000)
But there yet live in my memory (whereof I have much spoken) the images of such things as my ill custom there fixed; which haunt me, strengthless when I am awake: but in sleep, not only so as to give pleasure, but even to obtain assent, and what is very like reality. ❋ Unknown (1999)
He was heavy and lifele a long time, but she was too strengthless to even el know that she felt his weight. ❋ Merritt, Jackie (1997)
I took the field suit from Saban's strengthless hands. ❋ Vinge, Joan D. (1996)
I sat down on a bench, finally, letting my head rest against its iron brocade, my hands hanging strengthless in the space between my knees, as I waited for the cab I'd called to come back and get me. ❋ Vinge, Joan D. (1996)
My fingers flew open in his fist, suddenly strengthless; I was hanging onto my smile, teeth grinding silently, and I knew I was going to have to cry out but wouldn't and didn't. ❋ Finney, Jack (1995)
