likeless

Updated: May 12, 2025

"Ecce Tiberum!" cried the Roman legions when they first beheld the Scottish Tay. What power of association could have made them see in the clear and shallow stream the likeless of their tawny Tiber, with his full-flowing waters sweeping down to the sea?

Various - Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science : Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875