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But of a sudden some fashionless form brushed my side—some inert, coiled fish of the sea; the thrill of being alive again tingled in my nerves, and the strong shunning of death shocked me through.

From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Melville, Herman

It's like the light, —    A fashionless delight It's like the bee, —    A dateless melody.

From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Dickinson, Emily

Vesty, standing there, dim and tall, in her laceless, fashionless gown, met her glance with a long, serious look that contained nothing either of alarm or suspicion.

From Vesty of the Basins by Greene, Sarah P. McLean

It's like the light, —   A fashionless delight It's like the bee, —   A dateless melody.

From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Third Series by Todd, Mabel Loomis