a. [f. STORY sb.1 + -LESS.] Having no story or stories.
c. 1836. Darley, in Friendsh. Miss Mitford (1882), II. 4. You have … a substantive … taste for poetry itself, when you can thus like storyless abstraction better than a tale of some … human interest.
1849. Fraser’s Mag., XL. 42. Even storyless and songless Java is for us embalmed in one lone verse of Heber’s Missionary Hymn.
1867. Athenæum, 9 Nov., 607/3. The author is as story-less as the knife-grinder.
