At the last cut he makes, his knife-his faithful knife-drops from his little nerveless hand, and ringing down the precipice, falls at his mother's feet!
I endeavored to raise the hammer, thinking to show Ford how willing I was to work, by proceeding with my labors on the weaving house, but it fell from my nerveless hand.
There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.