songless

“Their songs were too faint to hear when they were together with your singing in the lantern, but not now,” said Michael, turning the songless lantern over in his hands.

The Sound Thief « A Fly in Amber 2009

That we were songless and starting to speak different languages 

Down Bleecker Street With You 2010

There was a grave clock, ticking somewhere up the staircase; and there was a songless bird in the same direction, pecking at his cage, as if he were ticking too.

Little Dorrit 2007

Only a handful of songless, danceless and unique art films are made at lower budgets.

Mail Call: Women At The Helm 2007

The country was unusually silent under the intensifying sun, the songless season of birds having just set in.

Two on a Tower 2006

Speaking of the tympan [in earlier versions, a "harp all songless"] that he has found:

The Annotated "Ripple" Robert Hunter 2005

So, throughout the morning, Henriette swept and scrubbed and polished, sometimes heaving a sigh, sometimes rebuking her children, but for the most part silent as a songless bird.

Two Tales of Old Strasbourg 2003

It is thus that the singing crickets too produce their song; they possess greater warmth and are indented at the waist, but the songless variety have no fissure there.

On youth and old age, on life and death, on breathing 2002

It is thus that the singing crickets too produce their song; they possess greater warmth and are indented at the waist, but the songless variety have no fissure there.

On youth and old age, on life and death, on breathing 2002

Long after she had outgrown the little rural school scraps of poetry returned to her to rewaken the enthusiasm of childhood and to teach her again to "hear the lark within the songless egg and find the fountain where they wailed, 'Mirage!'"

Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' Anna Balmer Myers