It was the play of cognitions, of sensations, formlessly tending to the effect which can only be very clumsily interpreted in language.
"A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Fifth"
William Dean Howells
So he rose to a conception which had never come to him before, and even now it was formlessly vast; he felt the power of the outside world, and reached to a divination of the fatality of it all.
"Rose of Dutcher's Coolly"
Hamlin Garland
All this was formlessly in Gerald's mind-this and much more-when his spirit groaned that Charlie should be giving Aurora a dog.
"Aurora the Magnificent"
Gertrude Hall