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Definition of Thawless
1. never thawing [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thawless
Literary usage of Thawless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Synonyms Discriminated-- by William Taylor (1813)
"thawless unmelting obstinacy is the metaphor implied in rigor. 1'erri rigor.
To rigor is opposed pliancy. Religious competition renders sects austere, ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1816)
"... The intrepid thought, cold, thawless pride, And fortitude, in torture tried, —
These are its' ..."
3. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"... kis fifty-sixth It matters not that Time has shed His thawless snow upon your
head, For he maintains, with wondrous art, Perpetual summer in your heart. ..."
4. The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak, T. Arundel Harcourt, Albert Goldschmidt, Walter Mulrea Fisher, William Nemos (1874)
"Their very mother-earth, upon whose cold bosom they have been borne, age after
age through countless generations,8 is almost impenetrable, thawless ice. ..."
5. ... The Native Races: Of the Pacific States by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"Their very mother-earth, upon whose cold bosom they have been borne, age after
age through countless generations,8 is almost impenetrable, thawless ice. ..."
6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1857)
"... where from year to year the glacier creeps ; Cloud-piercing crags the chamois
only leaps ; Mountains whose thawless snows sublimely rise In peaks, ..."
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