Through this, spear after spear was thrust; and after several ineffectualattempts to reach the deck, the sailors and marines began to retaliate by thrusting bayonet and cutlass through in return.
Another shot struck the water, and though well aimed for the next prahu, it rose and went over her, merely making a great gap in the matting-screen from behind which the Malays were keeping up a brisk but ineffectual fire.
If he does not do this, he will only find his duties become more and more irksome to himself, and all his zeal will often be thrown away in ineffectual efforts.
While acting in this capacity, he had seen with regret how ineffectual his art had proved to alleviate the mother's sorrow caused by the recent loss of her favourite son.
After continuing their ineffectual search for some time, the conspirators returned to the house, and abandoning all idea of retiring to rest, kept strict watch during the remainder of the night.
After an ineffectual attempt to speak, Lady Digby swooned away, and was committed by her husband, while in a state of insensibility, to the care of an attendant.
He was many degrees nearer the brute than he had been even when Robert made his ineffectual visit.
She made a faint ineffectual effort to pick it up, and sank into a chair.
The whole attitude was that of desperate but ineffectual resistance to-- what?
Titles I care not for—great wealth I do not crave;—and even if I yearned for the one or aspired to the other, of what avail would be that idle—ineffectual ambition?
Parravicin, fiercely, "I shall not weary Heaven withineffectual supplications.
After repeated, but ineffectual efforts to burst open the door, Leonard gave up the attempt in despair, and endeavoured to make his situation known by loud outcries.
For three whole days I made ineffectual search for the child, and offered large rewards to any one who would bring her to me.
The other boats now came up, and the prize was towed out under a heavy, but ineffectual fire from the batteries.
These were brought out by the boats, under a heavy but ineffectual fire.
At a little past four, the squadron anchored abreast of the Fort of Griessee, but no farther resistance was offered, except a few ineffectual shots fired from that fort at the Culloden; M.
The full force of those iron times beat ineffectual upon Rupert;--Death touched him, and that shining fame sparkled and was shattered forever.
Its dying agony, ineffectualand vain, presages my own doom, approaching, inevitable.
My best efforts seem ineffectual in the face of the increasing mountain of unturned hosiery, and the officer grows more irritable and insistent.
Fort Jefferson was commenced long before the war, and is now a monument of the ineffectual military methods of thirty years ago.
A few even scaled the side of the Tank and rained savage but ineffectual blows upon it with the butts of their rifles.
Greeted by a direct but ineffectual fire from machine-guns and small-arms the oncoming Tank made straight for the mine-crater in which her consort had been trapped.
Fifty--a hundred yards ahead the Tanks went, greeted by a fierce yet ineffectual fire from scores of machine-guns.
Yet, for the great purpose of the court, the burnt-offerings were ineffectualas the prayers of the priests.
Lord Clinton, who was now admiral in the place of Howard, after an ineffectual cruise in the south of the Channel, returned to Portsmouth on the 8th of July.
Pardon this gush of sorrow; these ineffectual words are but a slight tribute to the unexampled worth of Henry, but they soothe my heart, overflowing with the anguish which his remembrance creates.
I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead, and found a passage to life aided only by one glimmering, and seemingly ineffectual light.
With Wordsworth it was different, and it was his cordial dislike of his poetry that prompted Borrow to introduce into The Romany Rye that ineffectual episode of the man who was sent to sleep by reading him.
We then do not do what we intended to do but what we have got used to doing, or else we thrash about in a blind ineffectual way.
Obstacles are encountered upon which action dashes itself into ineffectual spray.
For it leads to disparity between nominal standards, which become ineffectual and hypocritical in exact ratio to their theoretical exaltation, and actual habits which have to take note of existing conditions.
And the Supreme Court set the order aside, declaring it to be "ineffectual for any purpose and void.
The result is that only three justices of this court concurred in the purported order, and as such order could be made only by the concurrence of four justices, it was ineffectual for any purpose and void.
An ineffectual attempt; ineffectual as her wish, for there, coming down at a rattling pace, was an unmistakable figure.
After some ineffectualattempts on the part of the U.
He had "gone out with the tide," and the returning waves were ineffectual to bring him in again.
After making an ineffectual attempt to put it out with her hands, she became alarmed, and as I approached started wildly up, with the evident intention of rushing out of the room.
Wilford, who actually writhed with mingled pain and fury, was making violent butineffectual struggles to free himself.
The emperor Balbinus attempted, by ineffectual edicts and precarious truces, to reconcile the factions at Rome.
In this morass the Roman army, after an ineffectual struggle, was irrecoverably lost; nor could the body of the emperor ever be found.
The force of the collision threw him headlong, but he was up again in a twinkling, and disappeared in the darkness, followed by a few ineffectual shots by the baffled Federals.
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