Example Sentences

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To take your place roseless was to proclaim that you had not been asked until the eleventh hour.

From Our Philadelphia by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins

Below, in the garden, it was quite dark, and I could only see dimly the dead leaves that were whirling and dancing uncannily over the roseless paths.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

It is, perhaps, because of this that he is comparatively so roseless a poet.

From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert

Let me tell you that there is something radically wrong with the person who can read that book and then go on plodding along his dreary, roseless way.

From Making a Rose Garden by Saylor, Henry H. (Henry Hodgman)

What purest mouth, but roseless for great woe, With zeal to youthful lovers never known Presses a new-made grave, and through the blades Of grass wind-shaken breathes her piteous prayer?

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey