"Rootless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he plucked the little daisies from their stalks, sped back with them through the garden gate, and commenced to plant them in the earth. First he made a little hole for each of them in the soft brown mould, then put the rootless flowers in and pressed ...
— Little Folks - A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) • Various
... died, not fighting but impotent. Hung on the wire, between trenches, burning and freezing, Groaning for water with armies of men so near; The fall over cliff, the clutch at the rootless grass, The beach rushing up, the whirling, the turning headfirst; Stiff writhings of strychnine, taken in error or haste, Angina pectoris, shudders of the heart; Failure and crushing by flying weight to the ground, Claws and jaws, the stink of a lion's breath; Swimming, a white belly, a crescent ...
— Georgian Poetry 1920-22 • Various
... withered like rootless things, And the sands rolled on, rolled wide; Like a pelican I, with broken wings, Like a drifting barque ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... Man Enright once recounts a story; which the same shows how female fancy is rootless ...
— Wolfville • Alfred Henry Lewis |
