Example Sentences

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There was some perfunctory grief, though in each case the funeral was one of the new-fashioned kind, marked alike by tearlessness and the use of motorcars.

From Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home by Wise, Stephen

Measured by man's tearlessness, her weeping seemed terrible to him.

From Main-Travelled Roads by Garland, Hamlin

The great quiet and the smiling tearlessness testify to the more than Spartan discipline of the race.

From The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories by Hearn, Lafcadio

So he could not cry, though the mother wept when she awoke, and shrieked at his tearlessness as hardhearted.

From Old Man Savarin and Other Stories by Thomson, Edward William