The Dutch, too, showed themselves no more favourably disposed to us than when William of Orange was on the throne, and the whole year of 1701 was wasted in fruitless wrangling.
That month had been spent in fruitless negotiations.
In the long, vexed, and fruitless days of their stay in Paris, the American envoys, it seems, were not without the solace and diversion of the society of the French Capital.
Here again I cannot but see a mere waste of fruitless learning and bootless ingenuity.
Fresh follies spring up in new paths of criticism, and fresh labourers in a fruitless field are at hand to gather them and to garner.
If ever fruitless but endless care was shown to prevent misunderstanding, it was shown in the pains taken by Shakespeare to obviate the misconstruction which would impute to Falstaff the quality of a Parolles or a Bobadil, a Bessus or a Moron.
The Poles retained, too, a secret sense of their fruitless attempt to recover freedom in 1791, and an animated recollection of the violence by which it had been suppressed by the Russian arms.
The Panghúlu thus frustrated in his design, writes in revenge to her father, and informs him that his daughter has made a fruitless endeavour to seduce him: upon hearing which the deceived parent orders her to be put to death.
Wearied with fruitless search, and despairing of finding him to whom she would make her obeisance, the princess Unsheathed her dagger, resolved to stab herself, her heart being wholly devoted to her husband.
Abandoning their fruitless search after Suyudána, the five Pandáwa returning, homeward bend their course.
After repeating a fruitless attempt at the branches, they gave it up, and came down amongst the grass on "terra firma.
With fruitless grief, what I enjoyed before; No more than seas, repenting of a wreck, Can with a calm our buried wealth restore.
It likewise happens frequently that whales come too near the stream, and are overpowered by its violence; and then it is impossible to describe their howling and bellowings in their fruitless struggles to disengage themselves.
But let this city bear in mind that among her enemies lie hid those who are destined to be fellow-citizens, that she may not think it a fruitless labor to bear what they inflict as enemies, till they become confessors of the faith.
Amélie's second visit to the Palace had been asfruitless as her first.
La Corriveau made frantic efforts during her imprisonment to engage Angélique to intercede in her behalf; but Angélique's appeals were fruitless before the stern administrators of English law.
Angélique had been duly informed of the return of Amélie to the city, and of her fruitless visits to the Palace to see her brother.
Some of the better sort of citizens, weary of fruitless prayers and sacrifices to Phoebus, Phoebe, Pallas, and the Erinnys.
This fruitless adventure had spoiled all my enjoyment of the popular festival.
Now and then, a fruitlessshot from his bow-chasers, reminded the fugitive that the foe was still on his scent.
In a few moments more the boat was alongside, the officer on deck, and a fruitless examination concluded.
But, hurrying homeward from his fruitless errand, my boy followed the winding beach, and half way to the vessel found a human body, its head gashed with a deep wound, floating and beating against the rocks.
He moved aft heavily towards the deck-house, and Dampier watched him with a smile of comprehension, for he was a man who had also in his time made many fruitless efforts, and quietly faced defeat.
After a prolonged butfruitless stay at Munich, Graham and M.
The Christinos returned empty-handed and disappointed from their fruitless expedition, cursing the treachery which, although they could not prove it, they were well assured was the cause of their failure.
It made his English ambition fruitless and secondary; and his Irish government unstable and unpopular.
Or, better still: "After two weeks of fruitless search for work in the city, Mary returns to her old home.
When they are on the verge of starvation, and the husband has returned home after a fruitless search for work, the wife goes out to try to beg a bottle of milk.
France was desolated by all this fruitless strife.
The strictest search about the room was then made, but only with fruitless results.
The poor lover became quite pale with fruitless longing, and his spirits fell so low that good Miss Priscilla one day drew him aside to ask about his health.
But Link lately had taken so pessimistic a view of the matter that Lucian fancied he would scoff at his late discoveries, and discourage him in prosecuting what seemed to be a fruitless quest.
While pursuing their fruitless piano lessons, which are quite foreign to their customary train of thought, they regard their occupation only as a milch cow; and they obtain the money of sanguine parents, and sacrifice the time of their pupils.
This no reasonable man would expect of an old music-master, who, in his long practice in the realm of tones, could not arrive at learned and too often fruitless deductions.
Black Heinrich stood gazing up at the round tower, an unkempt figure, after his great but fruitless exertions.
Prince Maurice was engaged in the fruitless siege of Lyme Regis, Gloucester was again a centre of activity and counterbalanced Newark, and the situation in the north was practically desperate.
After some hours of fruitless search, they arrived at the unwelcome conclusion that they must go home without him.
