resistless

How To Use resistless In A Sentence

• For three whole days, during which time did not exist for him, he struggled in that black sack into which he was being thrust by an invisible, resistless force.
• But he was no match for this dreadful black bulk that descended upon him with the resistlessness of doom. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life
• The reason for this, Brown felt, was that men reach the chapter, and ‘the disposition to inquire is lost in the resistless impulse to adore.’
• Still the men moved on steadily, resistlessly, until they came within musket range. This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States
• The speed and force and resistlessness of him justified the designation. Heart of the Blue Ridge
• In the fall of the year this luxuriant growth of grass would be set on fire by the Indians or hunters, and especially when the wind was high would sweep resistlessly over the prairies, forming a spectacle, especially at night, that was at once magnificent and terrifying.
• -- Of Want. -- less. -- to be rendered without, or not to be: as, heartless, staunchless, resistless, exhaustless, trustless, not to be quenched, &c.; which are scarcely used but in poetry. The Scholar's Spelling Assistant; Wherein the Words Are Arranged on an Improved Plan, According to Their Respective Principles of Accentuation. In a Manner Calculated to Familiarize the Art of Spelling and Pronunciation, to Remove Difficulties, and to
• There is however, another enemy (though in some cases my dearest friend) whose power is resistless, and whose visits are perpetually made known by a rising of the stomack, and a redundance of water in the eyes. Letter 75
• It was not long before the wind swept across the waves with almost resistless force, when it was found necessary to strip the brig of all canvas, excepting a storm main-staysail and close-reefed fore-topsail; the yards were braced up, the helm lashed a-lee, and the brig was laid to. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale
• It gives a particular direction to every sentiment and action, and carries a man forward, as by a kind of resistless impulse, or insuperable destiny.