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You thus convey to us more largely and expeditiously the stores of your understanding and imagination, than you ever could by sonnets or canzonets, or sinewless and sapless allegories.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

One stage was accomplished, but how stiff were his joints and how sinewless his fingers!

From She's All the World to Me by Caine, Hall, Sir

One stage he accomplished, and then how stiff were his joints, and how sinewless his fingers!

From The Deemster by Caine, Hall, Sir

On such days as these he was conscious of the futility of his existence, the odious insignificance of his sinewless, empty life; useless, aimless, null!

From Footsteps of Fate by Couperus, Louis

Here is the reason why we have such a host of stillborn, sinewless, ricketty, powerless spiritual children.

From Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881 by Booth, Catherine Mumford