| 单词 | bootless |
| 例句 | The young soldier was lying on the bed, his arms thrown over his eyes, his bootless feet dangling over one end. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Behind her a bootless Turtle tiptoed through puddles. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The Hessians, completely disheveled, unbuttoned, bootless, listened intently. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z The Harfoots were browner of skin, smaller, and shorter, and they were beardless and bootless; their hands and feet were neat and nimble; and they preferred highlands and hillsides. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A melodramatic, self-destructive alcoholic, Agnes is, nonetheless, adored by Shuggie, whose days revolve around her problem — placating her, attempting bootlessly to keep her from drink and creating a ruckus. Review | Ken Follett’s latest epic is among the best audiobooks this month 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z In fact, another of that band’s hits seemed more appropriate to these bootless proceedings: the one called “Why?” ‘The Cardinals’ at the Public Theater 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z “In the Court’s view, characterization of defendant’s previous and threatened future actions as dilatory, in bad faith or unduly prejudicial would be a bootless exercise. They are, in varying degrees, all three,” he said. Judge: Trump delays on rape accuser’s claims in ‘bad faith’ 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Releasing a U.S. intelligence report on the murder without imposing consequences was a bootless action — a finding of wrongdoing without consequences. Opinion | The United States failed Khashoggi. It can protect others like him. 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Daniel Snyder, having turned a proud franchise into a creepy, predatory and bootless operation, does one thing with wicked effectiveness: manipulate hope. Perspective | The last, best scapegoat for Daniel Snyder is himself 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Well, here we are again, standing bootless in the snow during a crisis. Is Trump literally dissolving the union that Hamilton and Madison built? 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z When he last saw Guevara, he described his commandant as exhausted, wounded and bootless — but unbowed. Harry Villegas, right-hand man and bodyguard to Che Guevara, dies at 81 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z All-star games and award shows are pointless, mindless, senseless, needless, aimless, worthless, fruitless and bootless. Perspective | The NBA All-Star Game is pointless, but actual NBA games are full of intrigue 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z Telling white boys that they can be better is bootless: just wait until there ARE no white boys left. Opinion | An Abomination. A Monster. That’s Me? 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z Nicholas IV. promptly responded by commissioning a legate to Andreas III., the new King of Hungary, to preach a crusade, and the Emperor Rodolph was ordered to assist, but the effort was bootless. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z Seeing that she was determined to venture among the savages, on this—as Ichabod, as well as the others also, thought—bootless errand, the whole party accompanied her, and they proceeded hastily towards the grove. The Frontiersmen 2012-04-10T02:00:18.933Z On the evening of the 19th of August they were at the Carey Islands, where a bootless search was made for a cairn of stones believed to have been erected by Captain Nares. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Above all the Alexanders, Cæsars, Tadema-Napoleons, I set the brain which first spanned the earth, over whose little patches these fought through their empty bootless lives. Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z His curiosity, abundantly active within its own narrow circle, is dead to all things else; and to attempt rousing it from its torpor is but a bootless task. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z The light from the lamp behind her fell on an unfamiliar figure at the door of the dining-room--a bootless man with a revolver in his hand. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z Besides, if MacDowell, who was a virtuoso had confined himself to recitals he might not—— Alas! all this is bootless imagining. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z In the autumn the English king was for the third time driven “bootless home and weather-beaten back.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z Cast dust on those deaf skies, who spurn Thy orisons and bootless prayers, and learn To quaff the cup, and hover round the fair; Of all who go, did ever one return? The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Sore mourn'd for them their kinsmen in wild but bootless woe. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z It is bootless to this writing to restate whence came this mishap. From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America 2011-12-28T03:00:39.977Z But though the course was eminently more beneficial to him and his endangered journalistic prospects than bootless brooding would have been, it was a sorry week for him. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z I rode over accordingly, but found I had gone on a bootless errand. Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand 2011-12-02T03:00:22.447Z How many times they lost their footing during the next few minutes it would be bootless to recount. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z He went with Saco and Azcarate on the Committee of Information to Madrid, and on his return from that bootless errand he went to Washington as the first Cuban Minister. The History of Cuba, vol. 3 2011-11-28T03:00:26.510Z It were a bootless task to attempt to reform the disciples of allopathy; for, if you deprive them of the lancet, and their materia medica of poisons, they cannot practise. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z Hearts thus twined, when they shall sever, Wear no more love's bootless chain. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z The bootless struggle by the south against overwhelming odds of northern settlers to make Kansas a slave State was the sequel to the repeal of the Missouri compromise. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z A′pril-fool, one sent upon a bootless errand on the 1st of April, perhaps a relic of some old Celtic heathen festival. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z Among all his numerous attendants there was not a sole but shook in its shoe, while the tyrant trembled from head to foot with bootless anger. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z As soon thou may'st divide the waters, when Thou strik'st 'em, which pursue thy bootless blow, And meet when it is past. Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z Why, if I wept, it were no remedy; And do not thou spend labour on the air To bootless uses. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z We had a bootless chase," he said, "but that is nothing. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z Let me be spared that bootless last regret: Let me work now; I may do something yet. Sonnets and Other Verse 2011-09-11T02:00:08.503Z At any rate, I was still in mad career down midstream when the wind gave up the bootless chase at six o'clock, broke up into fitful zephyrs and went to sleep among the cottonwoods. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z Right glad was I to hear that his errand among my dusky friends had been bootless; but by the next morning's post I had received bitter news from Harley Street. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:33.793Z Even if Craig recovered, he would be powerless, since an accusation could not lie against a pardoned man, and Craig would not bring a charge that was at once bootless and incredible. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z As I recalled my many bootless trials, I laughed to think of Cedric and the game Old Marvin now had played on him. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z How could you, the favorite of fortune, you understand what fifty years of bootless work means? Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z I stood there in my stockinged feet as if I had been in a mosque, but no one remarked my bootless condition. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z Theories, arguments and studying too deeply on bootless systems, codes, beliefs, cults, isms and doctrines, is a waste of time. Think A Book for To-day 2011-07-27T02:00:35.180Z Oh," said he, "you come on a bootless errand, and might as well go home again and make the best of it. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z Yes," he said, "i' faith, a very bootless quest it was. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z The dewy wail of infancy, the piercing zest of female innocence, and the tremulous pleading of piping feebleness, all mocked at the radiance of the crimson steel, have poured their bootless incense o’er my breast.... John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z He looked around eagerly, wildly almost, but bootlessly. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z We have there had for our portion neither the bootless strife of the Caucasus, though having most warlike tribes for adversaries, nor the easy conquests of the trans-Caucasian provinces. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z How many wander back and forward on this bootless way! Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z In such scenes, indeed, the bravest find no means of falling back on their resolution and intrepidity; for the efforts of man seem insignificant and bootless as opposed to the will and power of God. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z The bootless love that blindly strives for the welfare of the loved ones! A Word to Women 2011-06-08T02:00:18.457Z “And with sharp shrilling shriek do bootless cry.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z I would rather have a double purpose than a bootless errand, any day? The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z But he knew revolutions too well to lose himself in bootless reflections, and, mastering his emotion, he exclaimed, "We shall know how to die!" History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z Her Highness—Heaven and all the saints unite to bless her for her upright intentions and generous thoughts—will never regret the trifling cost, even though bootless, with so great an aim in view. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z But as he knew that these strong measures could not be more than a temporary expedient, and as arguments were very bootless, he was at a loss to determine what he should do next. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z The rising sun saw his back turned upon Bristol; he and his Cavaliers venting loud curses—reviling their partisans inside, whose misleading correspondence had lured them to an expedition ludicrous as bootless. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z The cackling and talking has come to naught, as it mostly does," said he grunting to himself; "but beshrew me if I like a bootless errand. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z The horrors of that winter march over the frozen mountains will never fully be known; they are forgotten in the glorious, if bootless, victory on the sea-coast, and the heroic death of Moore. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z The search proved bootless, as any one might have prophesied. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z It would be both ungenerous and bootless to urge him to a confession which he would never make, and in the effort to evade which he would writhe, as he is doing now. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z To add to the effect of his position, he was swinging the bootless leg that hung across the arm of the chair with a rapid, circling motion. The Home Mission 2011-02-12T03:00:30.217Z I would you were willing even now to beat a retreat, nor take further risks to yourself and men, in so bootless an errand. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z What prompts me to this midnight deed, 'twere bootless now to ask, and idle to reveal. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z The chase proved bootless and fruitless; and after more than an hour spent in vein search, the soldiers came straggling back to the fort. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z Yielding to a sudden ungovernable impulse, Pierre darted his hand among the flames, to rescue the imploring face; but as swiftly drew back his scorched and bootless grasp. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z A slap from Prudence taught the girl the merit of silence; but the men were too much interested to heed an interruption as characteristic and as bootless as this. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z I thought we should have a bootless errand, for the wagging of tongues and the cackling of geese I never could understand; they are both pointless, and equally profitable. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z He was blunderingly attacked, by orders of Pedrarias, and not only repulsed the Spaniards from his stronghold, but drove them, bootless, back to Darien, where the survivors arrived breathless and panic-stricken. Vasco Nu?ez de Balboa 2011-01-02T03:00:18.200Z It would be quite bootless for me to try and describe what went on in my heart. Quisisana, or Rest at Last 2010-12-29T03:00:30.857Z There is Borrow, that robust, quaint, and captivating, if sometimes over-fanciful, cicerone, albeit his errand to Spain was as indiscreet in purpose as it was bootless in result. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z Yes, that brings us to his feet, though t’were almost bootless to name them, since they are often nearly in that condition. Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches 2010-12-20T17:11:48.837Z A week ago such an act would have been bootless utopianism. WikiLeaks US embassy cables: live updates 2010-12-13T08:47:00Z It is mentioned by Cnut as one of the bootless crimes, and under the Saxon laws was punishable by death. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Accounts had just arrived that blood had been shed at Lexington and Concord; and the bootless victory at Boston was announced, but not confirmed. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 "The question is a bootless one," Stephen answered firmly. The Hillman Being in a more advanced stage of toilet than H. C., we marched forth in search of the landlord on what we hoped would not prove a bootless errand. Glories of Spain The word survives in “bootless,” i.e. useless or unavailing, and in such expressions, chiefly archaistic, as “what boots it?” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" For the black horse had taken to the parked uplands, the dragging rope had tangled in a snaggy tree-root, and he was tracing weary circles in bootless effort to be free. Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus Of wasted fields and plunder'd flocks The Borderers bootless may complain; They lack the sword of brave De Vaux, There comes no aid from Triermain. Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59 Including the relief, siege, and capture of Lucknow, and the campaigns in Rohilcund and Oude An Indian was sent down to fetch it as a souvenir of the bootless quest, that they might, however, carry home something with them. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day Take home your unrequited love into your bosom—nourish it there—but do not exasperate it by a bootless and incessant struggle against fate. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 The robb’d, that smiles, steals something from the Thief; He robs himself, that spend a bootless Grief. A Book of Epigrams This place had been the object of one of my bootless visits from Nohcacab. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. Perhaps no two men were ever more glad than the doctor and myself at finding their journey bootless. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. A mutiny flared up, and the mate and the men went ashore, leaving Keating and Bogue marooned on board, but the search was bootless for lack of directions. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day The journey home was not very animated, for they were returning from a bootless errand. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine "Because," was the reply, "you ride of a bootless errand." The Handbook of Conundrums And, besides the relief of a pressing want, this well had a higher interest, for it assured us that our visit was not bootless. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. The attempts of single grammarians and purists to improve language are perfectly bootless; and we shall probably hear no more of schemes to prune languages of their irregularities. Lectures on The Science of Language And here we fall back into that bootless wishing of which we spoke a little while ago. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) When I first opened upon the just mentioned poem, in a careless tone, I said to Mary, as if putting a riddle, 'What is good for a bootless bene?' The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) In the confusion of a wild scramble to escape and a blind clubbing of heads there was bootless destruction. The Story of the Trapper The last I saw of my orderly was when he had divested himself of the workman's incumbrance,—his coat,—and was tramping, bootless, haltingly along in the dustiest part of the road. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 The vigor and proportions of this demonstration alarmed the Cherokees, grown accustomed to mere remonstrance and bootless threats. The Story of Old Fort Loudon You hint, then, that I come a bootless wooer? A Prince of Good Fellows And a lost tree is like a lost life; utter loss, bootless waste. Through Our Unknown Southwest Then people did what the love of life had never made them do: they forsook the old sacred medicine, the bootless holy water, and went off to the Witch. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages Peeping out, dazed and bootless and coatless just as they had sprung from their blankets, they saw a wonderful sight. Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters Quiet, save aimless and bootless shelling and picket firing along the lines on the south side of the river. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital But it is bootless to pine after knowledge irretrievably buried in oblivion. Old Roads and New Roads Ah! bootless creeps the dusky shade, Slow o'er thy figured plain: When mortal life has passed away, Time counts his hours in vain. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. On Lind, when Drury’s sun was low, And bootless was the wild-beast show, The lessee counted for a flow Of rhino to the treasury. Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign However, expostulation and reproach were bootless; nor would it answer here to go into the quarrel which ensued over the dead body. Callista : a Tale of the Third Century Everything depends upon the issues of the present campaign, and upon them it may be bootless to speculate. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital Partly dressed, bootless, unarmed, Driscoll shoved the old man aside, and sped through the church, hopping over half awakened soldiers as he went. The Missourian The labourers were often very poor and wretched, ill clad, bootless, badly housed and short of food, but there was nevertheless a great deal of middle-class comfort and prosperity. New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism It may be stated here that before 1759 the books of the Hudson's Bay Company show �100,000 spent in bootless searching and voyaging for the mythical North-West Passage. The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North (Volume 18 of the Chronicles of Canada) We often noted dead Germans who were bootless, their footgear having been appropriated by some victorious Frenchman, who had left near-by his own less desirable shoes. The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone The best plan, the only plan, to redeem the past and enjoy blessings in the future, is to cease this bootless warfare and be the first to recognize our independence. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital He had come out on a bootless errand, to save 171 the lives of certain men, if it might be. The Shepherd of the North I could hear them distinctly clapping their hands; I could not hear the patter of their feet, though—the poor little fellows were bootless. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly James wintered on Charlton Island, and towards the end of 1632, after a summer's futile cruising, returned to England with a terrible tale of bootless suffering. The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North (Volume 18 of the Chronicles of Canada) Returning from this bootless voyage, he was presented to Queen Anne, and well received. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy He tipped the bootless foot back on its toes as he lifted his other foot and tugged at the boot. The Coyote A Western Story He was willing, after a long and bootless search, to confess to himself that he would rather see Nan Morgan for one minute than all women else in the world for a lifetime. Nan of Music Mountain One is apt to imagine so, in considering the history of that royal race, in whose behalf so much fidelity, so much valour, so much blood were desperately and bootlessly expended. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges It required no small amount of pluck—as I call it—to face them—bootless, coatless, vestless, hatless, penniless, and, withal, with my feet and trousers besmeared with cow dung. Adventures and Recollections As he did so, moving his bootless feet, Pan's keen eye espied a bottle on the floor. Valley of Wild Horses It were bootless to repeat their conversation, or to tell how often it was interrupted by some unchided caress on the part of Ussher. The Macdermots of Ballycloran His admonition ceas'd, but all advice Was bootless: still his resolution holds; To guide the chariot still his bosom burns. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II Ay, many may come, but few shall go back," he cried defiantly; "besides, ye come on a bootless errand. Tales From Scottish Ballads Listless and brooding, she sat day after day, comparing the present with the past, wishing vain wishes, indulging bootless regrets, and looking upon her aunt and grandmother with an eye of more settled aversion. The Wide, Wide World There is a further security against the wanton and bootless mischief which fear or design has imputed to the Bank of the United States. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 Think of our danger, and it may enable you to form some idea of what were our feelings after returning from our bootless hunt after the horses. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Do the brisk winds, “Thou ingrate! waft my bootless plainings on, “And waft thy vessels? The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II He had apparently allowed for everything; any possible effort she might make to escape from his clutches seemed vain and bootless. Juggernaut Curses, blows, even a dagger pried betwixt her lips—all bootless. A Victor of Salamis Wicked the word, and bootless the boast, As cruel King Crocodile found to his cost, And proper reward of tyrannical might; He show'd his teeth, but he miss'd his bite. The Children's Garland from the Best Poets And so we fought the most sanguinary battle of modern times, yet utterly bootless so far as immediate results were concerned. Doctor Jones' Picnic Go and manifest A late contrition, but no bootless fear! Personal Friendships of Jesus I mean bootless in the proper sense of the word. Fibble, D.D. To plead my faith, where faith hath no reward, To move remorse where favour is not borne, To heap complaints where she doth not regard, Were fruitless, bootless, vain, and yield but scorn. Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age Thus terminated the first act of the most singular, bootless, and, we are almost tempted to add, burlesque war which, in all probability, Europe ever witnessed. Louis XIV. Makers of History Series It is a rather bootless kind of effort, at best, though it may tend to develop the muscles of one's jaws. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine He looked at him with sullen, bootless rage. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands A thorough scrutiny of my surroundings, which I conducted with the aid of my late sleeping companion, merely served to confirm this belief, the search being bootless. Fibble, D.D. But they must thole this damage all, Their tears but bootless, bootless fall. Alf the Freebooter Little Danneved and Swayne Trost and other Ballads He was bootless and a great toe protruded from a hole in the point of his sock. The Gold Girl Seeing that they were thus surrounded, and by overwhelming numbers, Bayard said to his men cheerily— "Let us give ourselves up, comrades; further resistance were but a bootless sacrifice." With Spurs of Gold Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds Howard replied: “I know it is a bootless errand to ask justice from Thorbiorn, but I will do thy will in this matter.” Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race The whole effort to support a Christian education in the public schools is sometimes called a "bootless wrangle." Colleges in America “The devil take the Bainbridge roadmaster—I repeat it!” cried Richards, half in earnest and half laughing, raising his muddy and bootless foot as he spoke, and placing it on a chair. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Thus we all felt that the expedition would be bootless, as we had utterly failed to obtain tidings of those of whom we were in search. In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting You have often Begun to tell me what I am; but stopp’d And left me to a bootless inquisition,372-10 Concluding, Stay, not yet. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Our praise would be unmeaning minstrelsy, our prayers a litany unheard and obsolete, all our devotional service a bootless trouble, but that “yonder the Intercessor stands and pours his all-prevailing prayer.” The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866 Thus, coatless and bootless, he leaped on shore, when delay a second longer would have effectually prevented his ever recounting the tale. Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman “Well, what is to be done now?” said Richards, who had placed himself in a sort of theatrical posture—his bootless foot on the gig-step, the other sticking fast in the mud. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Ah, luckless speech, and bootless boast, for which he paid full dear! The Book of Humorous Verse For over two years has Rufino Valdez been occupied in this bootless quest, without finding the slightest trace of the fugitives, or word as to their whereabouts. Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco We had lost a day by this bootless journey; but our consolation lay in the belief that our Indian pursuers, following upon our trail, would make the same détour. The Scalp Hunters If die I must, let me perish at least from well-directed though exhausting effort, not sink from mere bootless weariness in sustaining myself till the morning shall bring relief. The Man In The Reservoir Richards, however, stepped boldly forward, in spite of his bootless foot; and luckily the men appeared disposed to be upon their best behaviour with us. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Almost in an instant our lights were extinguished, and our bootless search brought to a termination. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse It was by the former that Colonel Armstrong’s train came up the valley, while the latter was the route taken by Hawkins and Tucker in their bootless excursion after buffalo. The Death Shot A Story Retold You have often Begun to tell me what I am; but stopp’d, 35 And left me to a bootless inquisition, Concluding “Stay: not yet.” The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] The matter is such a commonplace of history that it is bootless to labour it here. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska I can see him still—the vacant brown face of a very feeble-minded half-breed, ragged and tattered and almost bootless. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Sit crushed under the terrible 'Guilty' and bootless, formal blasphemy, 'May God have mercy on your soul'! Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 Notwithstanding their zeal, prompted by sympathising hearts, as by a sense of outraged justice, the day’s search proves fruitless—bootless. The Death Shot A Story Retold The bootless feet of the Texan had left no mark on the buffalo grass. Prairie Flowers It seemed as though the best thing would be to withdraw from a bootless, expensive, and troublesome venture. The Story of the Barbary Corsairs I thought you knew me well enough not to tease me with bootless prayers. Modern Icelandic Plays Eyvind of the Hills; The Hraun Farm One aspired to be an upholder and not a destroyer, but if it were a useless pain and a bootless venture——? The Daughters of Danaus Go, and manifest A late contrition, but no bootless fear! The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion Nor need we follow him when he goes, disguised as a Moorish page, accompanied by a single cavalier, to undertake the bootless task of pacifying the revolted Netherlands. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 In my humble opinion my visit to London will prove bootless; it can’t be helped, Sally, so cheer up, and don’t let Ned get out of spirits. Ned Garth Made Prisoner in Africa. A Tale of the Slave Trade Malietoa was unmoved, and they had to return; but their journey had not been so bootless as they supposed. The Cruise of the Mary Rose Here and There in the Pacific "I told you 't would be all right, Mabel," said Mr. Brindlock to his wife; and neither of them ever rallied him upon his bootless experience in that direction. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 “The prisoners shall die; and let me tell you that your errand is bootless.” In New Granada Heroes and Patriots After he had traversed it he had the poor reward of finding himself on a bootless errand. Benjamin Franklin In this they had frequently succeeded, and many times had turned the hunter home bootless of his prey. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Yearly were millions spent on bootless task Of feeding vacant minds on useless food Because unfitted to their various needs. 'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts The unknown regions beyond the Mississippi river were handed over to Spain in payment for bootless assistance rendered to France toward the close of the war. The War of Independence Of all the bootless quests that literary criticism can undertake, this search for “the original” is the least valuable. The De Coverley Papers From 'The Spectator' It is not for profane man to inquire what possible reason there could be for the perpetuation—let alone the creation—of such a useless, bootless race. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy "Oh," said he, "you come on a bootless errand, and had better go back home, for I have no doubt the whole of the South will soon be as much under Lincoln as Kentucky is." Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure At dawn, bootless and hatless, I came in sight of Fort Gibraltar and Father Holland, who was scanning the prairie for my return, came running to greet me. Lords of the North Yet I dared not forget I was on an errand for the Governor and must not expose myself to bootless peril. The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV "She to me Was proxy-wedded with a bootless calf, At eight years old." Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. All our surplus stores were dumped and a guard of the bootless left with them, and we moved off from Sheikh Zowaid on the morning of the 25th of March, reaching Rafa about midday. The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 Theories, arguments and studying too deeply on bootless systems, codes, beliefs, cults, isms, or doctrines, is a waste of time. Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep He had nothing to tell except that he had wasted many weeks following false clues, till our buffalo hunters returned with news of the Sioux attack, Diable's escape and our bootless pursuit. Lords of the North The old Squire never learned of Halstead's bootless experiment in forced feeding. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's But had he known, to one as he—so weak, so blind, 'twere bootless all, No tree can save another tree—by the sharp hatchet marked to fall. Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems Mr. Hardesty breathed once more like a freeman; and muttering deep anathemas against the inhospitable house and all its inmates, he stole quietly along, with his bootless feet buried at each step in the snow. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 Imagine a better label for that tragic record of heroic and yet bootless effort, that matchless picture, in microcosm, of the relentlessly cruel revolutions in the macrocosm! A Book of Prefaces Listless and brooding, she sat, day after day, comparing the present with the past, wishing vain wishes, indulging bootless regrets, and looking upon her aunt and grandmother with an eye of more settled aversion. The Wide, Wide World How the thing went from bad to worse, it would be bootless here to tell. Phineas Redux To slay With sudden stroke Camilla unaware He gave, but gave not his returning day; The breezes puffed the bootless wish away. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor To enumerate all the cures effected by prayer would be as bootless as to rehearse all the miracles of therapeutics and surgery. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals The Indians endured the privations with stoical indifference, daily marching out on a bootless quest for game. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark But so was Christ's a bootless sacrifice at the time, if you measure deeds by gain. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade To Eleanor, her life seemed a constant flitting at the beck of bootless duties, nagging duties that only an expert time keeper of Heaven could credit. The Freebooters of the Wilderness The matchless beauty, dazzling to the sight, Can ne'er be learn'd; for bootless 'twere to seek By art, what by kind chance alone we gain. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch The Circle L men had plunged outside in various stages of undress—all bootless, unprepared, amazed, and profane. The Trail Horde The hope of such a passageway had led many navigators on bootless voyages; and here was Mackenzie with the same bee in his bonnet. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark It was a bootless sacrifice at the risk of three lives. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade It is impossible and bootless, to weigh the comparative degree of culpability involved in breaches of orders which cannot be justified. The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain The Usher goes his errand again, and comes back bootless. The Tables Turned or, Nupkins Awakened. A Socialist Interlude Now, wheeling round with bootless skill, Thy bo-peep tail provokes thee still, As oft beyond thy curving side Its jetty tip is seen to glide. Baby Chatterbox I say," said the cunning Jason, "that they are come here on a bootless errand. Myths That Every Child Should Know A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People And so has every sacrifice worthy of the name been a bootless sacrifice, if you stop to weigh life in a goldsmith's scale! Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade Extreme effort in the bootless attempt to achieve a desired end greatly diminishes the intensity of the desire. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library And again adopting a bantering tone, "I trust, fair lady, I shall not return this time from a bootless errand." Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life Here again I cannot but see a mere waste of fruitless learning and bootless ingenuity. A Study of Shakespeare Cecil disliked his manner, and felt irritated; but there she was, imprisoned, bootless, in her chair, while those appendages smoked damply in the fender. Bluebell A Novel But whoso, trusting birds not ominous, approaches mine oracle, to inquire beyond my will, and know more than the eternal Gods, shall come, I say, on a bootless journey, yet his gifts shall I receive. The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological "Nothing, so please you," answered the man; "and Philip here says that our search will be bootless, for that he is not in the house." The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance Such, however, were only the slighter symptoms of his bootless struggle against the general embarrassment into which the agricultural interests were, year after year, so unhappily sinking. Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three But bootless bene, is unavailing prayer; and the meaning, though imperfectly expressed, seems to have been, what remains when prayer avails not? A Book for the Young He was not accustomed to have a woman look him fairly in the eye and speak in tones, not of bootless fury, but of superior scorn. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. I trust when I come back," remarked the knight to his lady, "that yon spies will have grown weary of their bootless watch, and will have taken themselves off. The Secret Chamber at Chad I would read, Do not Brutus bootless kneel! Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Hughes' glossary of obsolete terms includes words which are in daily use by modern writers: aghast, baleful, behest, bootless, carol, craven, dreary, forlorn, foray, guerdon, plight, welkin, yore. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century In the grey dawn two hatless and bootless young men came stumbling down into the laager. With Steyn and De Wet Paul marched and fought and marched and fought again, Patient and earnest through the bootless toils And fiery trials of that dread campaign Upon the Peninsula. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems I have seen a swan With bootless labor swim against the tide, And spend her strength with over-matching waves. Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations But it was a bootless strife for colored people. The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States Nothing can be more melancholy than this dreary waste of human speculation, this weary and bootless search after the secret of the universe. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Shirley, the governor of Massachusetts, had returned from his bootless errand to settle the boundary question at Paris. Montcalm and Wolfe But I see that to have ta’en His bow without him were a bootless gain He must sail with us. The Seven Plays in English Verse How success in that enterprise might have suggested or shaped a further course of aggression, it is now bootless to conjecture. The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848 That was our own experience with a walking-stick which was absolutely bootless. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 7, 1917 Buddhism was an after-thought, only reached after six years of bootless asceticism. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Nay, quiet the bootless striving in your breast And let your tired heart here at last find rest. Gawayne and the Green Knight A Fairy Tale Wilt thou not learn after so long to cease From vain indulgence of a bootless rage? The Seven Plays in English Verse It would be bootless to pass beyond Laramie into the mountains, and our next course, I thought, must be toward the south. The Way of a Man You said my father had gone on a bootless errand. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance My friends, why do we thus cherish a bootless grief like this? The Argonautica Yet he answered her bootless question with simple directness. The Last Shot When further search seemed bootless, at the last One spake, whose words bowed all our heads to the earth With fear. The Seven Plays in English Verse And the bootless issue of his late mission to outer Mardi had thrown him into a mood for revelry. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I "But he's gone on a bootless errand, I tell ye," continued Mrs. Garth. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance I hope that he knows about, and takes a comforting pride in—over there in the Shades—the great city which owes its founding to that seemingly bootless voyage! Henry Hudson A Brief Statement of His Aims and His Achievements The people in the houses and shops from time to time stopped packing up their effects long enough to go to the doors and look up and down apprehensively, asking bootless, nervous questions. The Last Shot Yes, if you thrive; but your desire is bootless. The Seven Plays in English Verse But giving it up at last, for a bootless errand, they dropped farther and farther astern, until completely out of sight. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I Is not a 'sleeveless errand' one that cannot be unravelled, incomprehensible, and therefore bootless? The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell The two are alike in scene, the night of bootless toil, the great catch at Jesus' word. The Life of Jesus of Nazareth But it is bootless to think of her now. Wild Western Scenes A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly Described It were bootless to ask whether this charge could possibly have any weight with you, Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Court. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Nothing stood before the porte-cochère of No. 6, a thing so unusual, more especially in critical moments, that I suspected I had been misled, and that I should have a bootless walk. A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland It was on their return from this bootless errand the day previous to the drawing of the conscription that I had fallen in with the two peasants. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 But now there's neither thought nor time For generous act or bootless crime; For other cares the thoughts demand Of the small-powerful victor band. Poems Thus we from bridge to bridge … Pass'd on, and to the summit reaching, stood To view another gap, within the round Of Malebolge, other bootless pangs. Ravenna, a Study Then I had them bare the feet of the four Britishers, knowing they could not run bootless in the brush. D'Ri and I This magnificent reasoning was of course unanswerable; and the rebuked petitioner abandoned her bootless errand in despair. The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney Officers had been sent on the heights of Capri, one of which towers more than a thousand feet above the sea; but they returned from a bootless errand. The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet Therefore would I far rather do so in deed by serving you than by bootless words. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 Dobbin and Joseph Sedley were in India now, and old Sedley, always speculating in bootless schemes, once more brought ruin on his family. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction In the face of such odds it was a bootless task, and as there were not enough knives and forks to go round, I could not inculcate the correct method of handling those implements. My Brilliant Career In vain! the bootless strife with fate is o'er— And the doomed vessel nears the iron shore. Poems Nevertheless, Griffin persevered, until he had even given an account of the manner in which he and Cuffe examined the lugger's anchorage, in the bootless attempt to discover the wreck. The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet I divine;And grieve that you so far have journeyed, sir,Upon a bootless quest. The Saint's Tragedy There is no man that is ignorant, that to humble yourself at the feet of the law is a bootless task; in her courts there is no room for amendment and reformation. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are She could see that nothing would be more bootless than thrusting traditions upon people who would not know what to do with them. The Visioning "Well!" said that good-natured emissary, after a full half-hour of bootless attempts to bring him round to the question. A Tale of Two Cities “Bootless, my master, bootless,” said the steersman, peering forward through the dark. The Black Arrow Death at length overtakes him, but it is before he is weary of his bootless chase of that complete felicity which is forever on the wing. Democracy in America — Volume 2 It is bootless for him to argue, as I have here argued, that his amusement is in itself innocent, and that some open-air recreation is necessary to him. Hunting Sketches By heavens it is pitiful, the bootless love of women for children in Vanity Fair. Vanity Fair The details of the awful tragedy of Friday evening are yet fresh in the minds of the people of Waco, and it is bootless to recount them. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 We were first introduced to a number of chiefs in European uniforms - except as to their feet, which were mostly bootless. Tracks of a Rolling Stone When by various processes an idea has ended by penetrating into the minds of crowds, it possesses an irresistible power, and brings about a series of effects, opposition to which is bootless. The Crowd; study of the popular mind Religion, my son, be a bootless subject for argument between friends," replied the priest, "and further, there be that nearer my heart just now which I would ask thee. The Outlaw of Torn He would like to have done with life and its vanity altogether—so bootless and unsatisfactory the struggle, so cheerless and dreary the prospect seemed to him. Vanity Fair The dentist went away from his bootless visit to his wife shaking with rage, hating her with all the strength of a crude and primitive nature. McTeague They opened the cache, and found the contents spoiled; but, as they returned from their bootless errand, they saw buffalo; and Nika shot two of them. France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 Violence and lust would have gone upon bootless ventures, if justice and generosity had not been crimped to strengthen the crew. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 After their ravages, to go in pursuit of them is a constant but almost bootless task. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 But we knew, before the look, that the searching would be bootless. A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West Beyond this first camp the trail was lost, and a week was wasted in a bootless search around the mine at Gold Gulch, whither it seemed probable the partners had gone. McTeague A man soon wearies of so bootless a task, and the storm passed off, like one in the heavens, with a low rumbling. Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast To convince without obedience I would take no bootless labour; it would be but a gain for hell. A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare In "The Force of Prayer," which opens with the question— What is good for a bootless bene? The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 O tender minds! in life's gay morn Some clouds must dim your coming day; Yet, bootless pride and falsehood scorn, And peace like this shall cheer your way. Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs Waste not your years in bootless strife, Till age upon your bodies creep. The Imaginary Invalid I sympathize deeply in your anxiety about your mother; yet I cannot but remember the bootless fear and agitation about my mother, and how strangely our destinies were guided. Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. On consultation with my shipmate, we came to the conclusion it was hardly worth while to pull the boat about in different directions on a bootless quest after the sloop. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale The stanzas from which Lamb quotes run:— "What is good for a bootless bene?" The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 If the serpent bites before the spell, Then bootless is the charmer's art. The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur Go and manifest A late contrition, but no bootless fear! The Canadian Elocutionist Where that locality is it is bootless to speculate. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark These, sometimes, sought to restore order out of chaos, but soon abandoned the attempt as a bootless task, and bowed submissively to the storm whose force they could not arrest. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale "We have been but bootless hunters," said the townsmen. The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day A medical man was near at hand, and in a few minutes arrived, but it was a bootless visit. Endymion Or by a simple transposition of the lines; And bootless, make the breathless housewife churn Skim milk, and sometimes labour in the quern. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Seventeen years before, Horace had written: "Think not that I have sworn a bootless oath; Yes, we shall go, shall go, Hand linked in hand, where'er thou leadest, both The last sad road below." Horace My errand then is bootless, as it seems. Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles But no guides were to be found, and in the next summer the young man returned from his bootless errand. A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II It was the crowning—though bootless victory—to the recent brilliant, but useless success of the French arms at Carillon, Monongahela, Fort George, Ticonderoga, Beauport Flats. Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present I would regulate the lines thus: And sometimes make the breathless housewife churn Skim milk, and bootless labour in the quern. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Valencia had not the heart to help, believing, as she did, that Lucia's journey would be as bootless as it would be dangerous to her health. Two Years Ago, Volume II. Unhappy me! how bootless were the pains Which many a day I spent in nursing thee, A labour that I loved, for thou wert not Thy mother's darling more than thou wert mine. Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles I tried the heeling process, and earnestly endeavored to toe the mark; but to successfully start the thing on foot was a bootless effort. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 38, December 17, 1870. But beware lest you waste in bootless commiseration the brief opportunity of escaping from the hands of the enemy. The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 But Pompeius intercepted and slew 5,000 of them, and dispersed the rest, who, even if they had reached Etruria, would have found that they had come on a bootless errand. The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History It was indeed a heartrending story, to come so late, so bootless now, to the poor boy who had slept all these years in the nameless grave, even its place forgotten. Between Whiles And therefore must thou keep this dreary rock, Erect, with frame unbending, reft of sleep, And many a bootless wail of agony Shalt utter. Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles I had spent some time in this bootless search, and was resolved to give up further inquiry and foot it home, when the clock in the tower struck midnight. Moonfleet Was a light that paled the red wine's glow; And he shook his fetters in bootless ire, And called on the Prophet, and named his sire. A Hidden Life and Other Poems "I couldn't help hearing," apologized the stranger—he was vestless and bootless. The Heart of the Range From the pursuing of the hateful priest And bootless search of Ely are we come. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 I have felt long that argument was bootless with those whose root-ideas of Deity, man, earth, and heaven, were as utterly different from my own, as if we had been created by two different beings.’ Yeast: a Problem At thy age all is viewed in colors of gold, or life is rendered bootless, because we are thwarted in our ill-digested wishes. The Bravo The like assaults attain my wand'ring mind, Seeing our bootless war with matchless fate. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 "Where do you hail from?" would be a bootless question to put when the "hail-thrower" begins to administer throes to the breaking ranks. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 21, August 20, 1870 H. Then wend ye to the greenwood merrily, And let the light roes bootless from ye run. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 Vaillant returned from his bootless errand; and a stormy correspondence followed between the two governors. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV The answer proved, like all the others, unsatisfactory and bootless. The Bravo But let us drop this bootless argument, And tell me more of those unrivalled wastes You and Tecumseh visited. Tecumseh : a Drama After a couple of hours of this bootless sort of thing we had made no headway toward getting a guide, nor could we get definite information about the Buffaloes or the Wolves. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake De Ruyter drew off with his convoy, and Sandwich returned from a bootless errand. Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 This Parliament—the so-called Short Parliament—was dissolved, however, after some three weeks of bootless wrangling. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Something within warned him, as the Daemon used to warn Socrates, that his errand would be bootless. Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face Hector was griev'd, That thus his spear had bootless left his hand. The Iliad Atlanta's struggle against the restless Sherman has been only wasted valor, a bootless sacrifice. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance Through the still subsidized Einstein he knew that the bootless espionage upon his leisure hours had been given up at last. The Midnight Passenger : a novel "It would be bootless, sweetheart, I cannot carry weights." Under the Storm Bootless! yes, and words of kindness are bootless. Castle Richmond Anon he espied the weary and unconscious Tom approaching, lost in the profundity of thought, and though not in love, ruminating on every miss he had made in that day's bootless trudge. Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 Pat was with us, of course, prowling about stealthily, or making frantic, bootless leaps at the swallows. The Story Girl His bootless treason, his fruitless intrigue of years, even the hush-money on the one side, the blood-money on the other, are all alike valueless! The Midnight Passenger : a novel Mr. Thomas Marvel stood bootless and amazed, his jacket nearly thrown off. The Invisible Man But the sacrifice was to be made, and she knew that it was bootless to waste her words further on Caroline Spalding. He Knew He Was Right And he recalled his own bootless wickedness and underhand intrigues. The Fortune of the Rougons How it had come to pass that such friendship had sprung up,—or rather how it had been revived,—it would be bootless here to say. The Belton Estate If their forays were bootless, in the nature of things their forays would cease. Revolution, and Other Essays A man of leather found his efforts to excel, bootless. Chess History and Reminiscences While, therefore, he would not be accessary to his own destruction, he would not engage in what he knew would prove not only a most harassing, but a bootless resistance. Jack Tier It made her think how unnecessary and altogether bootless was the loss she had sustained. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl The cry brought him skulking back to his master and a blunt bootless kick sent him unscathed across a spit of sand, crouched in flight. Ulysses So spake the weary fisher, spent With bootless darkling toil, Yet on his Master's bidding bent For love and not for spoil. The Christian Year His legs and feet were bare, blue, scratched, and very dirty, and this toes had the prehensile look common to monkeys and small boys who summer and winter go bootless. Huntingtower Ragged, bootless, and emaciated, there still lurked in the gaunt soldiers the martial spirit of warriors. The Great Boer War Davis was partly responsible, for he promptly sent him out of the country on the bootless English mission. The Day of the Confederacy; a chronicle of the embattled South It would be bootless to revive any of the old discussions regarding Custer and his rash courage. The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West "I will be there," replied the duke; "but if I am brought on a bootless errand, not even my royal father shall save thee from chastisement." Windsor Castle Vat do you mean vid your bootless errands, and your soling and healing? The Fatal Boots Pshaw!" said the Senora, contemptuously, half amused, in spite of her wrath, by the girl's, as she thought, bootless vehemence, "you talk like a fool. Ramona It seems hard that you had to come all the way here on such a bootless errand. The Three Partners One is apt to imagine so, in considering the history of that royal race, in whose behalf so much fidelity, so much valor, so much blood were desperately and bootlessly expended. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne The reconnoitering party return to report a bootless search, and are electrified to find the victory already gained. Gala-days Lillian knew not what to say in the presence of this mighty love; her gentle efforts at mediation were bootless. Dora Thorne He had made equally bootless efforts to win some justice, some protection for them, from officials nearer home; he had endeavored to stir the Church itself to greater efficiency in their behalf. Ramona Yes, bootless was it to have expected anything from such a source as that. Through Russia But the son of Saturn afflicts me with bootless wranglings and strife. The Iliad My men committed a bootless crime at Camden Bridge; since the DUNCAN, if brought to the coast, could not escape me, and with the yacht once mine, I was master of the ocean. In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant Weakening, but unconscious of it, with bloody hands and feet, without lasso, and with only one charge in his revolver, hatless, coatless, vestless, bootless, the wild hunter urged on the noble horse. The Last of the Plainsmen It was bootless thinking, until Ramona was by his side. Ramona For fruit Of all my bootless sighs, I fail to find My former self. Phaedra The oath he swore was bootless, but it made Dolon more keen on going. The Iliad Paganel asked Glenarvan, however, to let him have the document again, on the faith of which they had set out on so bootless a search. In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant The cold iron stirrups froze and cut the hunter's bootless feet. The Last of the Plainsmen From effort vain, sick foil, and bootless strife, I shall, with childness fresh, look up to thee; Thou, seeing thy child with age encumbered sore, Wilt round him bend thine arm more carefully. A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul In such times as those, it was bootless to inquire as to that promise that no troops should pass southward through Baltimore. North America — Volume 1 A bootless voyage they were making, since the fair had been abruptly broken up at its outset. Michael Strogoff Or, The Courier of the Czar Mexicans scrubbed and scoured under the direction of Alice and Mrs. Mackenzie, and vaqueros rode hither and thither on bootless errands devised by their nervous master. Bucky O'Connor Mine ears are stopped against your bootless cries:— Sound, drums alarum; draw threatening swords! King Edward III O, my Lord, no more: things past redress Tis bootless to complain. Cromwell It shall be therefore bootless That longer you desire the court; as well For your own quiet, as to rectify What is unsettled in the King. King Henry VIII You have often Begun to tell me what I am: but stopp'd, And left me to a bootless inquisition, Concluding 'Stay; not yet.' The Tempest You may; But bootless is your sight: he will not speak To any. Pericles We may as bootless spend our vain command Upon the enraged soldiers in their spoil As send precepts to the leviathan To come ashore. King Henry V Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made head Against my power; thrice from the banks of Wye And sandy-bottom'd Severn have I sent Him bootless home and weather-beaten back. King Henry IV, Part 1 Let him alone; I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers. The Merchant of Venice Why, 'tis no matter, man: if they did hear, They would not mark me; if they did mark, They would not pity me; yet plead I must, And bootless unto them. The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus We budg'd again, as I have seen a swan With bootless labour swim against the tide And spend her strength with overmatching waves. King Henry VI, Part 3 It were bootless to expatiate on the host of talent engaged in formidable phalanx to do fealty to the Bleater. All the Year Round: Contributions Abashed, reddened, heartbroken, he walked away from the bootless door and sat upon a step. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million It was bootless to interrupt their own methods of getting at what was really in both their minds. The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories The man might pretend to look at the weather, which was fine; or he might affect earnest conversation with a bystander: it was bootless. The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains Then the troops and trainmen parted company, the former to undertake a bootless quest for the red marauders, the latter to return to Leavenworth, their occupation gone. Last of the Great Scouts : the life story of Col. William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill" as told by his sister But there are certain bootless crimes, or rather sins, that imply "sacratio", devotion to the gods, for the clearing of the community. The Danish History, Books I-IX |
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