stirless
- a word derived from stir.
Example Sentences
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Inside this figurative bowl it was chill, yet the air was stirless.
From Parrot & Co. by MacGrath, Harold
And when my spirit listless stands, With folded wings that do not live, Their own assuageless wings they give To lift her from the stirless lands.
From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton
It is full of strange and stirless flowers....
From Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck by Bithell, Jethro
It was worse, for there was not a particle of growing shade, not a blade of any green thing, and there seemed no breath of life in that stirless air.
From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Paine, Albert Bigelow
The moon is up—how still the yellow beams That slantwise lie upon the stirless air, Sprinkled with frost, like pearl-entangled hair, O'er beauty's cheeks that streams, How the red light of Mars their pallor mocks.
From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various
