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Definition of Checkless
1. a. That can not be checked or restrained.
Definition of Checkless
1. Adjective. That cannot be checked or restrained. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Checkless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Checkless
Literary usage of Checkless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poems of American History by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1908)
"With a sixty-mile front of steady ranks, We hold our checkless way; With a
sixty-mile front of serried ranks, Our banner clears the way. ..."
2. The Oriental Sporting Magazine: From June 1828 to June 1833. (1873)
"Then ride, sportsmen, ride, when once the game is going it, All reckless, checkless,
dash along without a fear ; Dare every danger, and scorn the chance of ..."
3. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"My cell 'tis, lady ; where, instead of The hollow murmur of the checkless winds "
Shall groan again ; whilst the unquiet sea Shakes the whole rock with ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1812)
"... checkless spell no Snake-like, is woven round thy tn-color; ‘l'he charm's
dissolv'd; ..."
5. The United States Magazine and Democratic Review by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1839)
"Aloft to ether's furthest, palest star, His checkless wishes bore him, in their
flight; No thought so high, no enterprize so far, But on their soaring wings ..."
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