These men behold fruitlessness on every side, and if (by chance) they succeed in obtaining the puissance of knowledge they never impart it to others for rescuing them.
Indeed, I keep aloof from both, beholding the fruitlessness of attachment and wrath.
The narrative, apart from its interest, is valuable for the lesson it conveys of the fruitlessness of the devotion of a most gifted woman's life to the pursuit of politics on the grandest and most elevated scale.
Yet had we often to complain of the fruitlessness of our endeavours.
The old pontiff, pricked to the heart by the death of his son and the fruitlessness of his appeals to other governments against Spain, soon ended his days in bitterness and sorrow (1549).
July, 1583, made a new attempt to correct the gross immoralities of the cloister and the fruitlessness of his efforts is shown by the fact that he issued another soon after.
Hodder felt not only curiosity and sympathy, but a vexing sense of the fruitlessness of his visits to Park Street.
For professors by their fruitlessnessdeclare that they are not of the planting of God, nor the wheat, 'but tares and children of the wicked one.
Behold what arguments are thrust into every corner, thereby to make man remember his sin; for all the toil of man, all the barrenness of the ground, and all the fruitlessnessafter all; What is it but the fruits of sin?
My relapse into the domain of Bellini's style, of which I had been guilty through the writing of this aria, was therefore useless to me, and I soon became convinced of the fruitlessness of my efforts in that direction.
The real horror is the dead weight of ennui, the aimlessness and fruitlessness of a life that has done nothing and has nothing to do.
It required no little courage for deputies to arraign the Inquisition publicly in the Córtes, and it is not surprising that the hardihood to do so disappeared with the recognition of the fruitlessness of remonstrance.
We shall have ample opportunity hereafter to note the persistant arrogance of the inquisitors under the royal favor, the restlessness of the people and the fruitlessness of their struggle for relief from oppression.
Since the selection of it she had heard Kemper quite as carelessly express approval of an ermine wrap, and her heart had suddenly sickened over the fruitlessness of her ambition.
The fruitlessness of virtuous acts ordained in the Vedas, as also of all transgressions, the origin and destruction of acts are, O beautiful one, mysterious even to the gods.
Indeed, men of self-possession, reflecting upon the caprice of destiny and the fruitlessness of exertion, never suffer themselves to be depressed.
No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever'; the punishment of that fruitlessness was confirmed and eternal barrenness.
