Example Sentences

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Be not so hard Thus without ruth tombless to cast him forth; Nor be so vanquished by a vehement will, That to thy hate even Justice’ self must bow.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

Shroudless and tombless they sank to their rest, While o’er their ashes the starry fold flying Wraps the proud eagle they roused from his nest!

From How the Flag Became Old Glory by Valentine, A. C.

On all these tombless crucified    No lovers' eyes have time to weep.

From Songs Before Sunrise by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Ah, Carolina! well the tear May dew thy cheek; thy clasped hands rear In passion, o'er their tombless bier,   Thy fallen chivalry!

From War Poetry of the South by Various

The spirit, first, of my companion came, Elpenor; for no burial honours yet Had he received, but we had left his corse In Circe’s palace, tombless, undeplored, 60 Ourselves by pressure urged of other cares.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William