Etymology
Origin of jointless
Example Sentences
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You would assume she was a plant, there to make plain the links between the emphatic thwack of the sabar and the jointless human body, but the band seem genuinely surprised to see her.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 16, 2011
Leaves long, sheathing the base of the simple jointless stems, erect, thickish.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
His old free, erect bearing was gone, and he stood upright with difficulty, and when he tried to walk, it was in a stiff and jointless sort of way, very painful to see.
From A Search For A Secret (Vol 1 of 3) A Novel by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
How fatal is the boy collective to all artificiality, sanctimony, weakness, make-believe, and jointless dignity; and how prone is the ministry to these psychological and semi-physical pests!
From The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work by Allan Hoben
Some day on this her eyes may light, This doggerel stiff and jointless, And she may own it is not quite Pointless.
From Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series by James Williams
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