returnless — Dicionário de inglês

Adjetivo

1. from (or due to) which one will not, or cannot, return (of a journey, destination, situation, distance, etc.)

   Uso

   • not-comparable

   Exemplos

   Seventeen years had rolled on their returnless flight since that night of withering sorrow.

   They would do an immensity of labor on their returnless journey to the ocean.

   Mais exemplos (1)

   You must hear the judge's decision, remorselessly giving up the woman with her children born and unborn, into the hands of their claimants--by them to be carried to the slave prison, and thence to be sold to a returnless distance from the remaining but scattered fragments of her once happy family.

2. which will not return

   Uso

   • not-comparable
   • of something that is gone

   Exemplos

   —but now false Memory loosed Her time-worn cable from the wilder'd mind, Blotting the chart whereon it loved to gaze Mid the dim ocean of returnless years.—

   Pass on, returnless year!