The wife of the Duke had the good fortune not to outlive the last Imperial decision; she died a few weeks previous to it; whilst her husband was fruitlessly setting heaven and earth in motion at Frankfort to ward off this fate.
After working assiduously but fruitlessly for two hours, the lieutenant and shipmaster, as also the other officers, went to the captain, and informed him that, alas!
Even when driven from the wall, several hundred of the Ti-ping soldiery rallied at its foot, and fruitlessly sacrificed themselves in attempting to expel the successful enemy.
The Ti-pings left dead at their posts, which they had really bravely though fruitlessly striven to defend, upwards of 500 men, more than half their whole force.
Loaded with presents from the Imperial treasury, Olga returned to her son, whom she strove fruitlessly to detach from the gods of his fathers to the worship of the new deities she had brought from Constantinople.
For a year and a half the contractor went on fruitlessly contending with these difficulties, and at length he was compelled to abandon the adventure.
The engine had been fruitlessly pumping for nearly twelve months, and came to be regarded as a total failure.
Lafayette had flown back to Paris, had fruitlessly appealed to the Legislative Assembly against the Jacobins, had just as fruitlessly appealed to lawless order against lawless disorder, and had retired in despair to his army.
For a quarter of an hour the canoes plied fruitlessly about, then found the dead men gently grounded in an eddy.
But a peep into the interior told a different tale; so she wandered fruitlessly on till she reached the last tent in the camp.
After the fatigue of riding or walking the whole day, you will fruitlessly weary both hands at night with driving away gnats.
They wander up and down the woods, and are often, but fruitlessly exhorted by the Jesuits, not without peril to themselves, to embrace our religion.
Two soldiers flung themselves off their ponies and leaped in pursuit, pausing fruitlessly for sight of the fleeing form and dashing on with trailed rifles.
Why, for instance, does Orestes fruitlessly torment his sister by maintaining his incognito so long?
Ever too the strong inward longing shaped Fantasms for itself: towards these, one after the other, must I fruitlessly wander.
Through the whole year John, in disgust at his displacement by Walter of Coutances, had been plotting fruitlessly with Philip.
His father, broken in health and spirits, negotiated fruitlessly through the winter, but with the spring of 1189 Richard and the French king suddenly appeared before Le Mans.
The Serjeant-major fruitlessly endeavoured to call them to order; they were all now become too vain and too valiant to be under the controul of any one.
His curiosity fully awake, he determined to dig a bit, though he had dug fruitlessly in many places since he came to the Jack-o'-Lantern.
It's reasonably tough,' admitted his lordship, fruitlessly endeavouring to rip it apart.
He had swum ashore, tramped to Rouen, and kept quiet in great fear while I was fruitlessly searching Paris for him.
Mechanically I crossed to the tallboy, which we had so fruitlessly surveyed, and began to finger it idly, wondering all the time whether my dream was wanton, or whether there was indeed some secret which we might discover.
For now he saw clearly the creatures who ran fruitlessly for safety.
Well, by that ruling the furry things which had fled fruitlesslyfrom the flames of the globe might well qualify.
The hospital, too, receives a considerable number of patients annually who are sent there only after protracted, and often severe, operative measures have been fruitlessly attempted outside its walls.
Attempts of the same kind were fruitlessly made in Philadelphia in 1801, although the blood, the tears, the nasal and bronchial mucus, and the exfoliated lamellæ of the epidermis were successively employed in the trials.
These ignorant creatures have got two or three small ropes between the vessel and the reef, and are pulling fruitlessly at both ends!
The Arabs, as has already been seen, had suspended their labour during the night, having fruitlessly endeavoured to haul the vessel over to the reef before the tide rose.
Ronald fruitlesslystrove to rouse him from this state of supine despondency.
It seems strange in the light of our after-knowledge that there ever was a day when Hodden's books were selling by the thousand, and Buel was tramping the streets of London fruitlessly searching for a publisher.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fruitlessly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aimlessly; amiss; astray; needlessly; vain
