Crossword-Solution: FOODLESS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The survivors of the people scattered over the country—leaderless, lawless, foodless, like sheep without a shepherd—the thousands who had fled by sea, would begin to return; the pulse of life, growing stronger and stronger, would beat again in the empty streets and pour across the vacant squares.

But in the mean time Nevada is beautiful in her wildness, and if tillers of the soil can thus be brought to see that possibly Nature may have other uses even for _rich_ soils besides the feeding of human beings, then will these foodless “deserts” have taught a fine lesson.

This man was left to roam the country, homeless, foodless, and desperate, with his giant strength, and great skill in arms, and the whole world to be revenged upon.

Like to a wind-sown sapling grow I from The clift, Sweet, of your skyward-jetting soul,— Shook by all gusts that sweep it, overcome By all its clouds incumbent: O be true To your soul, dearest, as my life to you! For if that soil grow sterile, then the whole Of me must shrivel, from the topmost shoot Of climbing poesy, and my life, killed through, Dry down and perish to the foodless root.

Then they fled, houseless and foodless, down the valley, as their village, shredded and tossed and trampled, melted behind them.