griefless
- a word derived from grief.
Example Sentences
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“Let them have a night’s sleep behind them,” she thought, “one more night of griefless sleep.”
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
What's to become of us?—I speak for many, Idle and "Unemployed," but oh! not griefless; Please, please kind Government to spare a penny, Or yet Trafalgar Square shall rouse the Briefless.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, March 4, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir
On the contrary, there was no other man in the city, we are bold to affirm, of so much as half his years, who enjoyed so many lightsome and griefless moments as himself.
From House of the Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Thou wert a winsome vine, dear, On my young tree: And so, till boughs are leafless, And songbirds flown, We'll twine, then lay us, griefless Together down.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
As St. Paul says, “Not that we desire to be unclothed, but to be clothed upon”—to have a spiritual, deathless, griefless life instilled into the body.
From Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife by Kingsley, Fanny E.
