shipless
- a word derived from ship.
Example Sentences
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Yet twenty days had passed, and here they remained, still shipless.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Bare is it, without house or track, and destitute Of obvious shelter, as a shipless sea.
From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 by Knight, William
On Norway's coast, the widowed dame May wash the rock with tears, May lang look o'er the shipless seas, Before her mate appears.
From The Romantic Scottish Ballads: Their Epoch and Authorship by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
Out of a clear, shipless sky, Malevski appeared, strolling toward him as casually as if he had been there all along, and said, "Nice little ceremony you have here."
From Divinity by Freas, Kelly
To the uninitiated, it seems to have the same paucity of interest as any other shipless stretch of water; but to this expert it has a story.
From Some Naval Yarns by Hall, Mordaunt
