What is "stringless"

Usage examples of "stringless".

Is varied, one chime rings through all: One chime -- though I sing more or sing less, I have but one string to my lute, And it might have been better if, stringless And songless, the same had been mute.

For the boy who had taken his name, he played the stringless harp on the floor beside him.

Warped, time blackened, worm eaten, the long-handled, curved, stringless old racquet in the glass case was a reminder of that long-ago day when a monarch of France had presented to a monarch of England, as they met in conclave among the pennoned pavilions and glittering shields and lances of the armoured chivalry of both nations, on a French meadow, a gift of tennis balls.

He was back in five minutes, as promised, still in his sweaty tank top, grubby, stringless sneakers, and a pair of khaki shorts.

Pertra watched in fascination as Gormal hovered like a massive stringless balloon.

One looked like a barbed hook, another resembled a stringless bow, and a third looked like a window covered by a grid.

Riverwind stood on the boulder, an arrow drawn back in the stringless bow.

Her horse dropped like a stringless puppet, and she hurled forward over its neck.

Above all, the stringless kites, the warplane nightmare pterodactyls, scissoring the mists, kettle-drumming the winds, flirting and shuttering like ugly fans, like books of horror, in the always-murdered and so always-drying crimson sky.

As far as I know he is still stringless, just as I am still waiting for somebody to do something about the cistern.

Across the island our hunt we take, From stringless bow let the arrow fly That we have aimed with a sightless eye.

The black and silver green-eyed horse-wolf-thing that had materialized out of the dark one night, and would do what the sword-lady wanted without her saying anything, the stringless blue kite with a person hanging under it, circling over the ruins of Arko—.