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Word: shapeless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trunk" after feathering. The whole weight of the rowing crew is shifted aft together, with the result that the stern is buried and the impetus again interrupted at the very moment when every extra ounce of weight tells, while the oarsman is brought to the full reach in a shapeless condition and out of trim for the coming struggle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Cambridge Stroke. | 10/29/1889 | See Source »

...ancient Pueblos; 2d, that they were the official houses of a migratory people. The climate of Yucatan is such that these ruins are rapidly disappearing. In conclusion, Mr. Agassiz expressed the hope that the public would aid the society to investigate these ruins before they were reduced to shapeless heaps of stone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RUINS OF YUCATAN. | 5/5/1882 | See Source »

...thou then that void and shapeless chaos...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN INVOCATION. | 1/25/1882 | See Source »

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