awless
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To describe the fop of her day she invented or hit upon the significant epithet, "awless."
From Time Magazine Archive
Little recks the awless lion where his hunting jungles lie— When he enters it be certain that a royal prey shall die,' "I know an excellent jungle now."
From Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala by Arnold, Edwin, Sir
Life, Eternal, passionate, awless, Insatiable, mutable, dear, Makes all men's law for us lawless: We strive not: how should we fear Strife?
From Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Truth, flawless and awless, Do falsehood what it can, Makes royal the loyal And simple heart of man.
From A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Has the boy Transgressed again in awless heat of speech And kindled wrath in thee against him—thee, Who stood'st between my wrath and him?
From Rosamund, queen of the Lombards, a tragedy by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
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