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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

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

To-day at tiffin the griefless widow unconsciously scored at the expense of the Seeker, to the delight of the whole table.

From The Lady and Sada San A Sequel to the Lady of the Decoration by Little, Frances, [pseud.]

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

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