What is "limbless"

Usage examples of "limbless".

He had found it necessary to increase the medications this morning, enough to focus the limbless human on what was most relevant, rather than on silly personal matters.

And now the limbless flesh merchant petulantly refused to tend to the other clones being grown.

The limbless Tlulaxa squirmed and complained and ranted so much that Gilbertus had taken Serena into a different segment of the cargo container.

His limbless torso was propped up in a harness, connected to life-support machinery.

Sith Lord lowered the limbless man tenderly to the cool ground above, and laid his hand across the cracked and blackened mess that once had been his brow, and he set his will upon him.

Crawl in the darkness of earth, least of all creatures, a spineless, limbless blind worm!

A sinuous, limbless species, possessing fringed flippers, however, that are snakish in a way.

She could literally feel her bones and organs shifting and changing as the recombinant invader transformed her very identity Visions of glowing mice and limbless thalidomide children infected her imagination, but when she looked down at her hands, afraid that all she would see were flippers, she discovered instead that her fingers were stretching before her eyes, growing longer and preternaturally more supple.

His left arm swung helplessly and he could not climb the limbless lower trunk of a lance tree with only one arm.

They had sat down at a table on the terrace of the Continental Palace Hotel, and there were limbless beggars everywhere, crawling like insects between the tables.

Yes, she said quietly, sure of herself now that she was here, even if she still wanted to cry when she saw the beggars and the limbless children.

I remember a few years ago, out that way, there was a straight, tall, limbless bole right near the road.

Sneek remained contentedly in his open-topped xicarium while a limbless, wingless burrowing worm had managed to defect.

Centuries of vandalism had, however, reduced them to blackened, limbless stumps carved with the graffiti of ages.

He had half expected to be limbless, carbonised medium rare and bleeding internally.