She seemed to be existing without an excuse; aimlessly, soullessly.
"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"
W. B. M. Ferguson
At its best Beauchamp regarded our lordly Press as a curiously diapered curtain and delusive mask, behind which the country struggles vainly to show an honest feature; and as a trumpet that deafened and terrorized the people; a mere engine of leaguers banded to keep a smooth face upon affairs, quite soullessly: he meanwhile having to be dumb.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
Proud lords and dames in frames of gold; young men and maidens in costly silks and velvets of marvellous dyes, red-cheeked, red-lipped, and soullessly silent; and she, alone and undefended in their midst, holding in her arms their last descendant.
"The Mountain Girl"
Payne Erskine