resistlessness

Jake had never before neglected a fire-guard, and he did not understand the resistlessness of a prairie fire.

When the Grass Grew Long 1996

The natural outpouring of thought has a relish and a resistlessness of force that no art can rival.

The Young Priest's Keepsake Michael Phelan

The speed and force and resistlessness of him justified the designation.

Heart of the Blue Ridge Waldron Baily

Lady Mallowe had many resources, and above all she knew how to weary her into resistlessness which was almost indifference.

T. Tembarom 1913

Utterly she surrendered to the resistlessness of this love.

To the Last Man Zane Grey 1905

But he was no match for this dreadful black bulk that descended upon him with the resistlessness of doom.

The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

This time the charge was down-hill, which doubled its speed and resistlessness.

The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

The resistlessness with which this new view of the life of civilisation has won acknowledgment from men of all classes is amazing.

An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Edward Caldwell Moore 1900

Generations ago Dysarts had been shot very conventionally at ten paces owing to this same debonair resistlessness; Dysarts had slipped into and out of all sorts of unsavoury messes on account of this fatal family failing; some had been neatly winged, some thrust through; some, in a more sordid age, permitted counsel of ability to explain to a jury how guiltless a careless gentleman could be under the most unfortunate and extenuating appearances.

The Danger Mark A. B. [Illustrator] Wenzell 1899

And for the moment they recoiled under the shock of that fiery onslaught; for the moment they parted and wavered and oscillated beneath the impetus with which he hurled his hundred Chasseurs on them, with that light, swift, indescribable rapidity and resistlessness of attack characteristic of the African Cavalry.

Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873