angelless
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angelless (not comparable)
- (rare) Without an angel.
- 1978, César Vallejo, Clayton Eshleman, José Rubia Barcia, César Vallejo: the complete posthumous poetry:
- In the last half of the only poem I completed to any satisfaction while living in Japan, I envisioned myself as a kind of angelless Jacob wrestling with a figure from an alien alphabet, trying to take its meaning from him […]
- 1980, Thomas L. Goodale, Peter A. Witt, Recreation and leisure: issues in an era of change:
- Our machines have shown us the uninhabited heavens while parting the angelless clouds.
- 1998, María del Carmen Boza, Scattering the ashes:
- In the mountains too angels sang to the lonely shepherds. A lion roared on an angelless mountain.
- 2007, Mark Channing, India Mosaic:
- The loneliness and remote grandeur of the scene swept one into an angelless Paradise.