Example Sentences

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The Marshal de Villeroy had made a feeble and systemless opposition.

From The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental by Dumas père, Alexandre

The head-master was excellent in his Prussian way, and the other instructors were not worse than in other schools; it was their system that struck the systemless American with horror.

From The Education of Henry Adams by Adams, Henry

There have been isolated acts of self-sacrifice, splendid in themselves but systemless.

From The Pawns Count by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

Howells was here yesterday afternoon, and I told him the whole scheme of this autobiography and its apparently systemless system—only apparently systemless, for it is not really that.

From Chapters from My Autobiography by Twain, Mark

Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp.

From A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 by Twain, Mark