Nothing could stop that terrible approach, resistless as a whirlwind, and French and Swiss broke themselves against it, only to be dashed back as spray from a rocky coast.

How sinks his soul, What black despair, what horror fills his heart, When, for the dusky spot which fancy feigned His tufted cottage rising through the snow, He meets the roughness of the middle waste, Far from the track and blest abode of man, While round him night resistless closes fast, And every tempest, howling o'er his head, Renders the savage wilderness more wild!

His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland; Still born to improve us in every part His pencil oar faces, his manners our heart.

He rose and sank, rose again, and the current bore him on with resistless force.

The minister told Marjorie that there was no man in the church whose life had had such a resistless influence as her father's.

"The Universal Passion (says he) is indeed a very great performance,his distichs have the weight of solid sentiment, and his points the sharpness of resistless truth.

But in his voice there existed a charm which would make him, when he spoke, to a female ear, almost resistless: it was soft, deep, melodious, and winning.

The marsh grasses swayed and yielded to its flow, lending new depths of color to the water-bed, as they bowed beneath the masterful currentso the difficulties which had seemed to beset their hopes had been vanquished by the resistless tide of his love and constancy.

You must suppose King Richard now is dead, And John, resistless, is fair England's lord

He must have found the pressure toward disintegration resistless, and if we consider this most significant phenomenon, in connection with an abundance of similar phenomena, in other countries, which indicate social incoherence, we can hardly resist a growing apprehension touching the future.

The nobility were privileged because they were resistless in war.

" Under the stimulus of a change in environment of mind is apt to expand with something of this resistless energy.

Cool, cautious, calculating, he stole on with slow and measured pace; and, while with secret pleasure he toiled up the ascent to greatness, laboured to persuade the spectators that he was reluctantly borne forward by an exterior and resistless force, by the march of events, the necessities of the state, the will of the army, and even the decree of the Almighty.

" "No wonder!the resistless Rochester flouted by a grocer's daughter.

And if such men could not hinder Fate's resistless rise and fall, How can we expect exemption From the common lot of all? Let us frankly face the prospect That man's progress here may fail; That the race may never triumph, But again descend the scale, Till the last surviving savage To his glacial cave retires, And earth's tragic drama closes, As humanity expires!

His resistless course withstand, And the road lay open, southward, To the conquest of the land.

But, as a necessary consequent of this spirit, as its implied complement in the balance of human nature, we find, as a distinct trait in the lives of many of the manliest ancients, an occasional prevalence of a spirit of despondency, a recognition of the ultimate weakness of man when brought by himself face to face with the wall of opposing circumstance and the resistless force of Fate.

" With a sense that a rapid and resistless current was carrying them both to destruction she saw for the first time that he was as angry as she.

" Soon the languor from the rest, and the heaviness from the food were forgotten; and there existed but one dominating, resistless impulse in dog and manthe impulse to win.

And grown resistless by the virtue of a granted boon, he ever mounted on that car, trampled upon gods and Yakshas and saints on all sides round.

Beyond that range was a nothingness, a hiatus that marked the sunken valley of the Rio Grande; beyond that, a headlong infinity of unknown ranges, tier on tier, yellow or brown or blue; broken, tumbled, huddled, scattered, with gulfs between to tell of unseen plains and hidden happy valleysaltogether giving an impression of rushing toward him, resistless, like the waves of a stormy sea.

The ardent vot'ry glows with genuine fire, 'Tis yours, while care recoils, and envy flies Subdued by his resistless energies, 'Tis yours to bid Piërian fountains flow, And toast his name in Wit's seraglio; To bind his brows with amaranthine bays, And bless, with beef and beer, his mundane days!

she spreads resistless day; And mark, the monster's cloud-wrapt fabric falls He shrinkshe trembles 'mid his inmost halls, And all his damn'd illusions melt away!

But already the man had been found who was to crush those wild masses in his iron grasp, and dash the speakers of the clubs down into the dust with the flashing master-glance of his resistless eye.

Then came other happenings: a long drift with resistless currents, the strange phenomenon of the lessening stream that dwindled as thirsty sands absorbed it, and the ceasing of the palms.