Crossword-Solution: EBBLESS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

His heart, as if with a presentiment of what was to follow, beat violently, and then stopped; life itself seemed ebbing away; cold drops stood upon his forehead; his eyelids trembled, and the balls reeled and glazed, like those of a dying man; a deadly fear gathered over him, so that his flesh quivered, and every hair in his head seemed instinct with a separate life, the very marrow of his bones crept, and his blood waxed thick and thick, as if stagnating into an ebbless and frozen substance.

The vast, the ebbless, the engulphing tide Of the white population still rolls on! And quail’d has your romantic heart of pride,-- The kingly spirit of the woods is gone.

They have either lost their vitality by abuse or neglect, or they have been overborne and swallowed up by the ebbless tide of vicious associations and indulgencies.