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The Dark Eros, with staunchless spear-thrust grieves;
The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence Rachel Annand Taylor
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No novelist ever spent more staunchless hours over high romance than those which drove Louis Agassiz through his fever of creating in words which anyone could understand what he believed to be the great truths of the universe.
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How staunchless the flow of lifts fountain unpent!
Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses John Douglas Sutherland Campbell 1879
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Discord and anger sound a note of war: the passion of more-having, staunchless avarice, threatens hostility; and envy is a hateful fiend.
The Memorabilia 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874
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-- 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.
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a note of war: the passion of more-having, staunchless avarice, threatens hostility; and envy is a hateful fiend. 195
Memorabilia 2007
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