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They penetrate, however, rudderless or compassless into the vast ocean of the "light ineffable," and again, like the adventures of the Nubian geographer, "agressi sunt mare tenebrarum, quid in eo esset exploraturi."

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Poe, Edgar Allan

Thenceforward the ship was to toss uncommanded, objectless and compassless, at the mercy of every tempest.

From Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville by Loyd, Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson)

One is left compassless, rudderless, chartless on a sea of ideas.

From The Little Lady of the Big House by London, Jack

They must inevitably stray from the true direction, striking into that infernal circle which imprisons all things blind and all things compassless.

From The Pools of Silence by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)

Clifford, while you are here, I’m like a bark distressed and compassless, That by a beacon steers; when you’re away, That bark alone and tossing miles at sea!

From The Hunchback by Morley, Henry