Example Sentences

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They have to be cold, wishless thinkers because a mistake may mean financial ruin.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is the peace of paradise, dreamlike, wishless; one never tires of listening to the holy tropical night, for there is secret life everywhere.

From Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific by Speiser, Felix

But it was not all unhappiness; the beloved eyes and hands, the wilful hair, and pale, sweet mouth, could still stir him; and there came hours of wishless well-being, when his tired brain found rest.

From Maurice Guest by Richardson, Henry Handel

He had lain day for day on a garden-bench, reading Novalis, and it still seemed to him that the wishless happiness of those days was the greatest he had known.

From Maurice Guest by Richardson, Henry Handel