No; he will feel that it is not the futile presumption of a comparison that would be preposterous; but a fond desire to separate,--with a high hand!
Perhaps something might yet be done to rescue the precious form, and lay it aside with all futile honours.
So he was left once more alone to his pain and his bitter self-reproaches and his wild and futile plans for escape.
Once more the spasm of childish, futile rage swept over him and shook him like a wind.
Her thoughts went back to the idle and futilelife that she had led for so many years.
So, after various futile attempts to make the new-comers talk, they paid no further heed to them, and Orion's secretary became the chief speaker.
His father's wiser and more experienced judgment had decided that the better course was to serve his people as mediator between them and the Arabs rather than to attempt futile resistance at the head of Byzantine troops.
The good-natured attorney accepted the invitation, and then went on-- "We have a saying regarding any futile proposition to the effect that it cuts no ice.
Like the preacher after the futile collection, I wanted to get back my hat at least, but although I wrote letter after letter, I never received any answer.
But he remembered that the girl was in constant communication with these men, and if she had not already informed them of his futile assistance, it was because she did not want them to know.
I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity.
Artist (making futile endeavors to remove the bread and butter with one hand).
You try to hold the reader's attention to the states of mind of a few futile persons who never did anything in particular that would make people want to know them exhaustively.
All that we can say to a person who refuses to interest himself in these experiments, or who looks upon all experiments as futile which do not turn out as he wished, is that his attitude is childish.
The directors had Holland, but they could not win Prussia further than the stipulations made in 1795 at Basel, so their scheme of embargo rested in futile abeyance.
There was some further futile talk about what both parties then as before, and thereafter to the end, considered the very nerve of their contention.
If there be anywhere a Christian Protestant state it is the United States; if any futile invention were ever incorporated in a written charter it was that of the electoral college.
Forrest's drawl had sharpened as if he saw in the prospect of this small engagement a chance to redeem the futile shame of those breaking lines at Selma.
They swarmed over and in it, pitching the contents out on the ground in spite of the futile protests of the driver.
It proved to be a futile attempt to bring within the compass of an essay what a whole book could hardly do justice to.
One wonders that Secker's good sense should have condescended to quote this far-fetched and futile interpretation of the simple and beautiful metaphor, by which the Psalmist illustrates the prosperity of the righteous man.
These tilts between his elders greatly amused him, they seemed so futile and inane, yet of such desperate interest to the participants.
I've had enough of yourfutile questioning, your unfounded suspicions, your absurd deductions!
But Aphrodite touches the chin strap of Paris' headpiece so that it breaks and leaves the futile helmet in the victor's hand.
After about half an hour of futile discussion, the Turk was convinced of the miller's innocence, and returned to where he had left his horse.
The leagued might of futile things Wars with the heart that dares and sings;-- It is not always Dawn!
Perhaps to cringe and cower and bring a shrine a forced and faithless faith Is far more futile than to fling your laughter in the face of Death.
God knows that yesterday I played the fool; God knows that yesterday I played the knave; But shall I therefore cloud this new dawn o'er With fog of futile sighs and vain regrets?
And if there is no needful truth in me, let me, howl as I may in the process, be hurled into the Dom Daniel, where I wish all other futile writers to sink.
Sent a letter on "Futile Lying," from Saccharissa to the Pall Mall.
For days the experienced oil men made futile efforts to extinguish the gusher and to cap the shaft.
After a futileattempt to sew the rent, Norman was forced to ask the police to clear their enclosure.
To undertake to hasten arbitration by forcing legislative proceedings beyond what the people will indorse, would be as futile as to turn up the hands of the clock to hasten the passage of time.
The mind of the world is convinced that war is futile and terribly wasteful.
This kiss, wrenched from him at the moment he felt himself strongest, obliterating useless exasperation and futile combat, ended his resistance.
The atmosphere of the theater always impressed her, throwing her other life into futile outlines.
And still, in the kaleidoscopic hazards of the frantic measure, his face was the only fixed point which a dozen futile shapes strove in vain to obscure.
At last the witch-doctor tired of the futile chase.
The warriors, returning from a futile search for Tarzan, saw him step into the firelight.
Alone in the boudoir he felt himself to be a very shamed and futile person, and he was still extremely angry.
It was as if he had been training himself for twenty years in order to be futile at a crisis requiring crude action.
Though Thorhaven might not be beautiful on a Gala evening, with futile little lamps and starved visitors blown about by the wind, it had, on such nights as these, an exquisite, cool beauty which appealed to the spirit as well as the senses.
After the funeral, as the poor mother sat in the nursery postponing the moment when she must go back to her empty rooms, I asked her, in a futile effort to be of comfort, if there was anything more we could do for her.
In the face of the desperate hunger and need, these could not but seem futile and superficial.
Under the overmastering impulse towards action he made a futile effort to sit up that he might better follow the movements of the two outside.
Faster and faster rushed the car in futile attempt to outpace the whispered treason.
He no longer sat idle in his room, his light eyesfutile with staring at space or his head down tiredly in his hands.
To contemplate a future futile with such dreary repetition became almost more than she could bear, and bitter with that salt were the lonely tears she cried at night.
