Example Sentences

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Our hearts have not so craven grown,   So bloodless all our veins, So vigorless our brawny arms,   As to submit to chains.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Imagination, wakeful, vigorless, In them makes the resolves of reason vain.

From Poems of Paul Verlaine by Brownell, Gertrude Hall