What does letterless mean?
Letterless means Without the presence or use of alphabetical letters..
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Without the presence or use of alphabetical letters..
I passed by a ruined tomb in the midst of a garden-way, Upon whose letterless stone seven blood-red anemones lay.
The next morning’s post brought several letters; one from Roger for Cynthia, and Molly, letterless herself, looked at Cynthia as she read it, with wistful sadness.
There is not much more in this letter, and then we have unfortunately another gap of nearly two letterless years, there being none in my collection from June 6, 1811, until May 24, 1813.
The prospect of seeing some one who had just seen Tom was very exciting, but Nina’s happiness was dampened by the fact that just about that time she had three letterless days.
a letterless peasant
1760, William Law, A Collection of Letters, London: J. Richardson, Letter I, p. 20, I join therefore in the public Assemblies, not because of the Purity, or Perfection of that which is done, or to be found there, but because of that which is meant and intended by them: They mean the holy, public Worship of God; they mean the Edification of Christians; they are of great Use to many People; they keep the World from a total Forgetfulness of God; they help the Ignorant and Letterless to such a Knowledge of God, and the Scriptures, as they would not have without them.
I knovv God by Miracle can inſtruct Kings, as he rained Mannah, and raiſed the Apoſtles from letterless Fiſher-men, to learned Metropolitans, and profound Doctours.
The son of a small tobacconist, he had grown up a sign-painter’s apprentice; idle, lawless, and practically letterless until he had drifted into the night classes of the Albert League, where Ghillini sometimes lectured.
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Letterless means Without the presence or use of alphabetical letters..
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I passed by a ruined tomb in the midst of a garden-way, Upon whose letterless stone seven blood-red anemones lay.
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