Example Sentences

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The gates leading to the Place du Carrousel were soon shattered beneath the blows of axes, and the human torrent poured in with the resistlessness of a flood.

From Maria Antoinette Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

Lady Mallowe had many resources, and above all she knew how to weary her into resistlessness which was almost indifference.

From T. Tembarom by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

The speed and force and resistlessness of him justified the designation.

From Heart of the Blue Ridge by Baily, Waldron

Like a great movement of Nature, it was awful from its very resistlessness; its imperviability to appeal.

From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.

It is an imperishable trophy, not less to the magnanimity of British policy, than to the resistlessness of British valour.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various