hingeless

• “Only mad science would reverse engineer the human skull, discarding earstems for a hingeless frame that wraps the upper cranium.”

  UFies.org: Random Linkage Archives

• “A hingeless door in the front of the cube opened with a distinct pop as the seal broke.”

  Simon & Schuster: Black Magic

• “His chest ached, and he savagely shoved that thought aside as the hingeless door popped open, emitting a plume of acid-green smoke that spread and hovered protectively over the safe.”

  Simon & Schuster: Black Magic

• “The chairs are broken-down invalids; the wretched little hempen mats slip away from under your feet without slipping away for good; and finally, the foot-warmers are miserable wrecks, hingeless, charred, broken away about the holes.”

  Father Goriot

• “No hingeless gates propped with sticks met the eye; no broken-down doors were to be seen on his barns; a master hand ruled the land, and his rule brought prosperity and happiness.”

  Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces

• “This hingeless condition of the gate, however, is, I must in fairness state, neither Jack's nor our fault.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876

• “There was no gate for the passage of teams; the road ended there, and a rough sign nailed to a hingeless wicket warned the wayfarer to "Keep Out.”

  The Rim of the Desert

• “He looked to Terry for explanation, but turned back at the grinding crunch of the hingeless door which opened to frame a fairer vision than the Major had ever dreamed, asleep or awake.”

  Terry A Tale of the Hill People

• “Between fields along the river bottom were gates distressingly crude; clumsy, hingeless panels of board fence, which I must dismount and lift about by sheer brawn of shoulder.”

  Somewhere in Red Gap

• “Philip turned to see a hingeless ruin of boards held together by the persuasion of rusty wire.”

  The Militants Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World

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