Sumless

He expresses his surprise that all the stars of the firmament, whose distances are so remote, and whose dimensions so greatly exceed those of this globe, should in their diurnal revolution have 'such a sumless journey of incorporeal speed imposed upon them' merely to officiate light to the Earth, 'this punctual spot;' and reasoning, wonders how ❋ Thomas Nathaniel Orchard (N/A)

Then long-forgotten things, like "sunken wrack and sumless treasuries," burst upon my eager sight, and I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. ❋ Harold Begbie (1900)

"Lo! the nations of the dead, Which do outnumber all earth's races, rise, And high in sumless myriads overhead Sweep past him in a cloud, as 'twere the skirts Of the Eternal passing by." ❋ William Rounseville Alger (1863)

Not the least interesting perhaps of the added passages is this in the last chapter: “That all this is true [i.e. that Divorce is not to be restricted by Law] whoso desires to know at large with least pains, and expects not here overlong rehearsals of that which is by others already judiciously gathered, let him hasten to be acquainted with that noble volume written by our learned Selden, 'Of the Law of Nature and of Nations;' a work more useful and more worthy to be perused, whosoever studies to be a great man in wisdom, equity and justice, than all those Decretals and sumless Sums which the Pontifical clerks have doted on.” ❋ Masson, David, 1822-1907 (1859)