Example Sentences

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I wander objectlessly, pleasurelessly about with Vick—apparently sharing my depression—trotting subduedly, with tail half-mast high, at my heels, and at length sit down on a bench under a mulberry-tree.

From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda

The arroyo's water slipped ceaselessly, objectlessly away from beneath her strained vision, smooth, suave, even, effortless, like the process of some unhurried and mighty mechanism.

From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

Why does an objectlessly lying devil make its inopportune entry into me?

From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda

At forty-five her life is objectlessly spasmodic, the old family-habit of talking of self and the family-fetish of discussing sickness have honeycombed her character and made her hopelessly tiresome.

From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Carroll, Robert S.