guideless
- a word derived from guide.
Example Sentences
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When I told him what we were scheming, his eyes bulged, his skin flaked, and he said what he always said whenever big-mountain travel came up: Don�t go guideless when faced with a probable B.A.F.U.
From Time Magazine Archive
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To awake, and set his shield aloft by the Roncalic Fields again, with: Ho, every one that is suffering wrong;—or that has strayed guideless, devil-ward, and done wrong, which is far fataler!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 02 by Carlyle, Thomas
Bart," he continued, turning, with an agitated countenance, to the young man, "as forsaken and guideless as you have been, many a parent has had a less deserving offspring.
From The Rangers; or, The Tory's Daughter A tale illustrative of the revolutionary history of Vermont by Thompson, D. P.
It is not cheery, but dreary, to be left in pathlessness, blanketless, guideless, and with breadths of lake and mountain and Nature, shaggy and bearish, between man and man.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various
I could not object to the answer; but the prospect of being left guideless was provoking.
From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Whymper, Edward