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A blending of all beauties; streams and dells, Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, corn-field, mountain, vine, And chiefless castles breathing stern farewells From gray but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells.

From The Automobilist Abroad by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

Don't imagine, uncomplaining creatures Are quite disorganised and limp, and chiefless; Our jaw is one of our most drastic features, And Art is long, though Life perforce be Briefless.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, March 4, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

At present without employment worthy his spirit of enterprise and intrigue, the disordered and chiefless state of Rome had attracted him thither.

From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

After Adrian's declared predeliction to the republican form of government, the latter party had nearly died away, chiefless, guideless; but, when Lord Raymond came forward as its leader, it revived with redoubled force.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft