How To Use Nerveless In A Sentence
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Big, strong and seemingly nerveless, he will frighten the life out of everyone when he grows up.
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Frona lay, head thrown back, sobbing at the sun; amidships Corliss sprawled panting; and forward, choking and gasping and nerveless, the
CHAPTER 25
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With a different voice the words of the song would have sent me out of hearing; now I stood rooted to the spot, as the notes floated out past me to the nervelessness of the Indian Ocean, every one of them a commandment from behind the curtain of a sanctuary.
Mrs. Falchion, Complete
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The Christian mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness and nervelessness unmatched in Christian history.
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With nerveless indifference, she was prepared to see the larger portion of her friends as well as enemies in high places depart the scene as a direct result of her behaviour.
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Some were natural warriors, nerveless and calm.
The Sun
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Those privileged enough to have watched that astonishing display of nerveless attacking tennis in the women's singles final of the 118th Wimbledon championships will never, ever, forget it.
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I didn't see any murders, but I got the car started in a hurry to avoid one of those situations where dozens of crackheads are slapping their nerveless hands at my windows trying to get at the rocks they think are hidden inside my brainpan.
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The spear fell from his nerveless fingers as a sword punctured him from behind.
Dragons of Winter Night
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The Demon sank into a chair, nerveless and limp, but still staring fearfully at the boy.
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Some were natural warriors, nerveless and calm.
The Sun
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The wire-wove mattress of his bed creaked as he sat on the edge of it, kicking off his slippers and putting on walking boots, as might be gathered from floppings followed by an equally nerveless but heavier tread.
The Far Horizon
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Slow," he muttered, and a strange fit of nervelessness came over him.
Under Western Eyes
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She adored Louise, but somehow at this crisis she could not help feeling impatient with the other woman's nervelessness and that devastating inertia.
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She barely heard his cry as he fell back, the fey blade falling from his nerveless fingers.
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Obliviously, he wasn't expecting that, and was so surprised that he let go of me, and I was able to pluck the knife from his nerveless fingers.
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And what a triumph it was as he beat the best golfers in the world with a nerveless final round.
Times, Sunday Times
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She has experience on her side too, but Hantuchova, a tall, hard - hitting Slovakian, was nerveless when she beat Hingis to claim her first tour title in Indian Wells in March.
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Thus it was that in a few moments they were sitting on a sofa in the drawing room, David still gripping the envelope in white and nerveless hands, while Philip perched on a chair opposite, watching with some concern.
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_fourth glume_ is narrow, ciliate, nerveless or rarely 1-nerved, erose or bifid at the top.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Safin began the match with the kind of nerveless enthusiasm which should have set the alarm bells ringing for Martin.
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Athletic were nerveless throughout and Rosbeg lost their third final in a row on penalties.
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The arms, suddenly nerveless, dropped me, and the Shetland sweater retreated smartly.
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The knife fell from his nerveless hand.
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Except that, with a speed which denied his lazy air, while she and Hugo were making their devoirs, he had taken her dance card from her nerveless fingers and scribbled his name thereon, using the little pencil attached.
The Outrageous Dowager
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But her gifts and attainments were not great enough to take her impersonations out of the rut of conventionality, nor to save her singing from the charge of nervelessness and monotony of color.
Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time
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If it was still in doubt after recovering from his painful and career - threatening injury, the Spaniard proved his mettle with a magnificent, nerveless run-in.
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The _first glume_ is hyaline, suborbicular, rounded at the tip and nerveless, 1/30 inch or less.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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They had used their newly-designed, precise instruments of torture to flay away skin, then the drugs to rebuild it into this monstrosity, this hideous pattern of nerveless layers.
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Suddenly the elf's eyes widened, the spear fell from nerveless fingers as a sword punctured its transparent body.
Dragons of Winter Night
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Slowly, the pistol slipped from nerveless fingers, then he raised his arms high.
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It is bad to drop the dumbbell from your sweaty nerveless fingers when you put it away.
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Sulla's shriek of horror ripped out of him as he leaped back and straightened; the skyphos emptied as it fell from his nerveless hand, and the wizened, stringy Grass Crown tumbled off his head to lie amid the blood.
Fortune's Favorites
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Len Mattiace would have won the Masters in 2003 had Mike Weir not forced a play-off with a nerveless 7-foot putt for par on 18.
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The _second glume_ is lanceolate, membranous, hairy at the top, 3-nerved with margins infolded; _palea_ is oblanceolate, thinly membranous, nerveless and ciliated at the top; there are three _stamens_ and two
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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He watched, not the only member of a horrified audience, as the knife fell from her nerveless fingers.
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The sword dropped from her nerveless fingers as she slumped forward, trying to stay conscious, using the last of her rapidly-fading strength to lift one hand to the hilt of the dagger at her belt, pulling it free.
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His nervelessness left him to be replaced by a mad and continual eagerness for action.
Salammbo
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The Scot's nerveless management paid off with his most significant victory in the league so far.
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‘That is a picture of my wife, Vana, and our twin sons Rog and Hal taken just two days before they were murdered,’ he said quietly, taking the picture from her nerveless fingers.
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And what a triumph it was as he beat the best golfers in the world with a nerveless final round.
Times, Sunday Times
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It may have been her first Grand Slam final but she was there to win - and win she did, with nerveless power.
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Liverpool proved their tremendous nervelessness, for after losing the lead given them by Terry McDermott, they stormed back in the second half with a leading goal from veteran Tommy Smith, whose 600th and final game this was.
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Silently he took the notebook from her nerveless fingers and dropped it on the floor.
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Cork's nerveless display in the dramatic Second Test means he is almost certain to line-up against the Windies on Thursday, leaving the way clear for Brinkley.
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The key fell from her suddenly nerveless fingers.
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At first, while training for the keirin, she reaches 75mph as her front wheel remains a nerveless few millimetres behind the back tyre of a motorbike.
Victoria Pendleton: 'Dreaming of being chased by a killer is normal'
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His body sank sideways in the same direction, the head lolling nervelessly upon his right shoulder, whilst from the great rent in his breast the blood gushed forth, embruing the water of his bath, trickling to the brick-paved floor, bespattering -- symbolically almost -- a copy of L'Ami du Peuple, the journal to which he had devoted so much of his uneasy life.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series
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the most nerveless winner in the history of the tournament
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These were words to rewaken all the happiest purposes of my expedition, and they recovered me from the nerveless, sinking state into which my exhaustion had cast me, as if by a miracle.
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
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The _third glume_ is broadly oblong, hyaline, nerveless or rarely with two obscure veins ciliolate at the margins and acute or acuminate.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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The 21-year-old's nerveless performance in the final, as he ruthlessly crushed Juan Carlos Ferrero, would have been enough to propel him to superstardom in his home country.
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She gulped and ran quick, nerveless fingers through her hair knowing she looked more than a mess.
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His employers, though, have already shown themselves to be nerveless when it comes to making these kind of decisions.
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Sitting over cakes and coffee, surrounded by the babble of a hundred excited voices waiting to go to a show, David Lan - a man of almost Zen-like relaxation and nervelessness - was not at all worried about the production that was about to premiere that night.
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Harry Reid issued a statement of consummate nervelessness.
David Bromwich: The Ticking Lie Scenario
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He and his art are described as “nerveless and effeminate”.
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Pulling the blade back out of the small eyehole, Nainnam dropped the dagger to the floor as a throb of pain passed through his nerveless fingers.
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Button did everything right: he was nerveless, drove flawlessly and pushed his car to its absolute 200 mph limit, but it was never enough against the combined might of Schumacher and Ferrari.
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The explanation of this boneless, nerveless, jelly-fish condition of soul is not difficult to find.
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[N] o medicines produced any effect, and he sank into a state of nervelessness and emaciation shocking to witness.
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
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The hottest Thai export since their famed curries, he will be insistent on proving that he is no one-year fluke, that he is as nerveless as he is graceful.
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I even saw myself, detachedly, falling down unconscious, nerveless.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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The sound is less spectacular: a nerveless mono mix.
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That this has so widely happened in our day is at least part of the reason for current cynicism and nervelessness in the effort to secure peace and justice in human relations.
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The first glume is very small, hyaline, suborbicular, nerveless and truncate.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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But then she saw he had dropped the gun from nerveless hands and she could not fault him at all.
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Still only 21, he is a nerveless and deadly finisher regardless of the magnitude of the occasion.
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The glass she had been holding shattered on the ground, falling from her nerveless fingers.
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She was halted with a sensation somewhat akin to being slammed into a brick wall, her sword dropping from her nerveless fingers as the impact struck her.
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The buzzer went off and the performance sheet feel to the bleachers from nerveless hands
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A nerveless downhill rider can take two minutes out of a cautious descender in just 20 kilometres.
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As she fell, the Hulk screamed and turned, ripping the gun from the cowboy's suddenly nerveless fingers.
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She is a nerveless rider.
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The _first glume_ is very small, membranous, glabrous, broader than long, cordate or triangular, broadly but shallowly emarginate, nerveless or very obscurely 1 - to
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Reaching out, he pulled the luggage from her nerveless fingers and set the bags down.
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The key fell from her suddenly nerveless fingers.
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Vile intrigues, unnatural crimes, and every vice that degrades our nature, have been the steps to this distinguished eminence; yet millions of men have supinely allowed the nerveless limbs of the posterity of such rapacious prowlers to rest quietly on their ensanguined thrones. 5 5
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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His prodigious memory, which gave him total recall of hundreds of games, allowed him to play like a computer with nerveless precision and speed, panicking his opponents into error and despair.
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The knife fell from her nerveless fingers.
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Once again, the dissidents among us underestimated the royals and their vast reserves of sheer determination, their nerveless calculations and - let's not pretend otherwise - their power.
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The abandonment of the inconsiderate scheme, initiated in obedience to a religious agitation and far too daring for a statesman of Lord Salisbury's nervelessness, having drawn Italy into such difficulties as the result of her obedience to his call, the least that Crispi could expect was that he would be supported by all the moral if not by the military power of England, whose influence in Abyssinia was very great.
The Autobiography of a Journalist
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We see these victims everywhere shorn of power -- weak, nerveless, backboneless, staminaless, gritless people, without forcefulness, mere nonentities because they have ceased working.
Pushing to the Front
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And yet -- the men in the trained-animal game acknowledged him the nerviest and most nerveless of the profession.
CHAPTER XXIV
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Elise's basket fell to the ground from nerveless fingers.
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a weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy and promptitude
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I felt a nervelessness and inability to speak or move, which for the time wholly awed me.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844
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Mrs. Burnett was quick to grab my backpack as it slid out of my suddenly nerveless fingers as I launched myself at Christine.
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The _first glume_ is very short less than 1/5 inch, broadly oblong, nerveless, hyaline, broadly truncate and erose at the apex.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Galkina was stunned by the nerveless determination of her Chinese opponent.
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The pages fell from her suddenly nerveless fingers and fluttered to the floor.
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Lex felt such a wave of gratitude at being let off so easily that the file nearly fell from his nerveless fingers.
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The points came from Chris Paterson, who landed five nerveless penalties from five kicks, and from Dan Parks, who put over a drop goal at an absolutely critical stage of the second half.