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The people it treats of are fibreless, end-stopped artistic folk.

From Time Magazine Archive

What a sapless, fibreless thing is a man untrained by endurance and untaught by suffering!

From The Chief End of Man by Merriam, George Spring

No, it is the unexercised and fibreless, in whom no adequate store of material has ever been laid up, that will peak and pine under toil.

From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)

Would you choose a fibreless Universe to be "remoulded nearer to the heart's desire," in place of the wild, tough, virile, man-making environment from which the Attraction of Gravitation lets none of us escape?

From The Philosophy of Despair by Jordan, David Starr