wayless
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of wayless
before 1100; Middle English; Old English weglēas. See way 1, -less
Example Sentences
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What aged man art thou? or by what chance Cam'st thou thus far into the wayless wood?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt
Then to the wayless wet gray ground he leapt; "My mission fails!" he cried; "Too late for Grouchy now to intercept, For, peasant, you have lied!"
From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
It is a wayless way there, but I know it.
From The Measure of a Man by Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill
Let fail me every spark Of blissful vision on my pathway rough, I have seen much, and trust the perfect more, While to his feet my faith crosses the wayless dark.
From A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul by George MacDonald
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