How To Use Pathless In A Sentence

  • Repton substituted ornamental gardens for ‘the uncleanly, pathless grass of a forest, filled with troublesome animals of every kind, and some occasionally dangerous.’
  • Her virtue is like a pathless desert.
  • I haven't taken the class, but I know it highlights a pivotal point in the Buddhist path; a revolution of sorts from aimless pathlessness to spiritual progress. Speedlinking 6/6/07
  • The first evening starts with a strenuous, pathless climb.
  • The pathless path isn't a straight line; it doesn't even lead from point A to point B. Deepak Chopra: Walking the Pathless Path: Do We Need to Travel to Have a Spiritual Journey?
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  • One reader -- call him David G. -- made it through "Infinite Jest" and its 388 endnotes in five days, scribbling notes on the flyleaves as if dropping bread crumbs in a pathless forest. Levity's Rainbow
  • He was lost for days in the vast pathless desert.
  • Instead, realising his perilous position, Montrose persuaded some shepherds of the Macdonald clan to lead the army to safety through the pathless wastes round Ben Nevis. Weatherwatch: Winter snow fades in the highlands
  • None of them yield easy climbs, the approaches being rough and the summits gained over pathless terrain liberally endowed with cliffs.
  • It is not cheery, but dreary, to be left in pathlessness, blanketless, guideless, and with breadths of lake and mountain and Nature, shaggy and bearish, between man and man. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862
  • The theory of navigation, which enabled the ships to travel unerringly their courses over the pathless ocean, was made clear to him. Chapter 11
  • All Central Africa and the great Southern or Antarctic continent was described as pathless desert -- "a land uninhabitable from the heat"; and the sources of the Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work.
  • Horror born of the jungle gloom and death on the pathless sands. Archive 2010-05-01
  • So it was that, a belated reader, I came across his lament over our pathlessness, some years after my having had a hand -- or a foot, as you might say -- in the making of a certain cross-lots foot-way which led me to study the windings and turnings of the longer countryside walks until I got the idea of writing Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches
  • a drearier pathlessness than when the forest covered it. Main Street (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")
  • The two were on an unmarked trail, taking them deeper into the pathless woods on the back side of Killington Peak.
  • They trudged on along the stony, pathless road.
  • We aren't slaves to the author's breadcrumbs; in fact, post-modern novelists celebrate this pathlessness. Adam Hanft: Brave New Chapter: The Simon & Schuster eBook Announcement
  • ‘Without system the field of nature would be a pathless wilderness,’ he proclaimed.
  • The two were on an unmarked trail, taking them deeper into the pathless woods on the back side of Killington Peak.
  • The going is slow, across the rough, mostly pathless ground, though animal tracks will aid progress.
  • The queerest ship that ever sailed is a yacht on wheels, a graceful land-going clipper, that glides over the pathless stretches of sun-blistered plain, and carries her plucky navigators to and from their gold mine in the desert. 2008 April
  • Today's poem is a verse from Byron's Childe Harold, speaking of pathless places.
  • Perhaps no one again, till Shelley came, felt the vastness, the pathlessness, of the heaven as Milton did. Milton
  • The walls and the ways would have stood -- it is we who have left not one stone upon another, and restored its 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, and bid the mountain-grass bloom upon the pavement, and the sea-winds chant in the galleries. A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market)
  • The nine cairns stand in wilderness country without habitations or shelter, in pathless terrain hostile to easy progress.
  • You have made the first step on the pathless path. Deepak Chopra: Walking the Pathless Path: Do We Need to Travel to Have a Spiritual Journey?
  • Though these wilds may be called pathless still there were here and there narrow trails, which the moccasined foot of the savage had trodden for centuries. From Farm House to the White House The life of George Washington, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services
  • You, all the while, in cities of exile, in that exile that was your detested and chosen instrument, the weapon of your craft, erected your pathless labyrinths, infinitesmal and infinite, wondrously paltry, more populous than history. Ulysses, Ulysses, soaring through all the galaxies
  • To expand on Joseph Campbell, we are reaching a "pathless path" as humanity, a process that each person should reach in his or her lifetimes. Luis J. Rodriguez: What 2012 Means
  • He was lost for days in the vast pathless desert.
  • Then we headed off across the pathless moor, battling bogs and heather.
  • Nothing -- neither sloughs, nor bogs, nor pathless forests, nor fordless rivers, could check the advancing tide of the marching throng; and one morning, from every point of the compass, lo! they took possession of The Cathedral
  • Numbers found their way thither through the pathless wastes of Russia; others navigated the Mediterranean in their sea-serpents, as they termed their piratical vessels. Count Robert of Paris

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