What is "pulseless"

Usage examples of "pulseless".

A star upon your birthday burned, whose fierce, serene, red, pulseless planet never yearned in heaven, Celestine.

Nevertheless he made careful tests, only to realize that the man was pulseless, apparently dead.

He could by a voluntary effort suspend the action of his heart for a considerable period, during which he lay like one dead, pulseless, and without motion.

For a pulseless moment I stood halfhearted in this transfixion, as if she were the simply baleful Old and not the paradoxic precious New Revised Medusa.

The purple of the hills grew deeper and softer, the lake a mere pulseless shimmer through the twilight haze.

In that dead, pulseless silence he could distinctly hear the distant voices of Levi and his companion, sounding loud and resonant in the hollow of the woods.

I laid my other hand upon her neck, pushed it lower till it rested above her heart, and enclosed one breast, nerveless, pulseless, and cold, colder than any snow.

I am a vampire, a heartless, pulseless, soulless member of the undead!

The snow fell gently through the pulseless air, not in flakes, but in tiny frost crystals of delicate design.

He lay pulseless and breathless under the iron shadows of the tree branches.

This death-like pause, this awful blank, this tense, anxious lapse, this pulseless, stifling silence is brief.

Plume reappeared alone, went straight to his home, and slammed the door behind him, a solecism rarely known at Sandy, and presently on the hot and pulseless air there arose the sound of shrill protestation in strange vernacular.

But no care could re-animate her, no medicine cause her dear eyes to open, and the blood to flow again from her pulseless heart.

And of fulfilment of this he was not deprived, for when, some time after the swift gliding of the Pride had given place to a subdued and pulseless motion that was almost retrogressive, she was gradually overhauled by the Lass, it was noticed that she too was running at less than half-speed.

If union with such an Absolute is to be enjoyed, the will must be pulseless, the intellect atrophied, the whole soul inactive: otherwise the introduction of finite thoughts and desires inhibits the divine afflatus!