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Definition of Pathlessness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pathlessness
Literary usage of Pathlessness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Painters by John Ruskin (1857)
"... the staunch pacing of his charger penetrated the pathlessness of outmost
forest, and sustained the sultriness of the most secret desert. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"Perhaps the last survival of this old faith in the pathlessness of the ocean was
the late Lord Derby's offer to eat the first steamer which crossed the ..."
3. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"They had the mechanical devices —limitless motor-transport, skilled gangs of
road-makers—to overcome the pathlessness and ..."
4. The Advocate of Peace by American Peace Society (1904)
"pathlessness to the desert. The great cathedrals of old religion would have
stood : it is we who have dashed down the carved work with axes and hammers, ..."
5. Our Southern Highlanders: A Narrative of Adventure in the Southern by Horace Kephart (1922)
"... writing in 1877 of the Maine woods, said: " The most striking feature of the
forest, after one has become habituated to the gloom, the pathlessness, ..."
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