The fussy pointless Revolutions of the old time, a vast crowd of silly little people chasing some silly little monarch and the like, had indeed died out and passed away; but Change had not died out.
There was no answer to all his questions in Cheasing Eyebright; the new Vicar was less luminous even than the old, and the riddle of his pointless labour grew at last to the dimensions of exasperation.
The trumpets blew a fanfare and, levelling their pointless lances, both knights gave spur, their great horses reared, broke into a gallop and thundered towards each other.
To point out to a restless and aimless ne'er-do-well, throwing up one position after another, that no moss will be found growing on the doorstep of some busy office would be an entirely pointless proceeding not tending to edification.
The whole letter testified to a restless but rather pointlessdesire to remain in communication with him.
Obviously no answer could be given and the bent old man launched into a vile pointless anecdote of a woman, a miner, and a mule, the crowd giving close attention and laughing uproariously when he had finished.
In the other incident, which may belong to the Isel period, Ciaran flings grain into the breast of the poor man, where it turns into gold: and we may suppose that the pointless re-transformation of the gold to grain did not take place.
Nevertheless, none of these writings are devoid of value as pictures of life and manners; and even in descriptions of incredible and pointless miracles precious scraps of folk-lore are often embedded.
Affairs such as these reflect badly on their initiators; it is sad that pointless wars must be waged to win friendship, but perhaps these are an intrinsic facet of early relationships for certain individuals.
I did not have Tracy's address, so letters would be a pointless effort.
My dad stood firm, however, saying that it was pointless to store dishes, especially at my age; and he added, that I may change my mind about the pattern and what a shame that would be after investing in an entire set of china.
I see you've succeeded in taking the house," was the somewhat pointless remark.
I am in it, my lord," was the equally pointless reply.
Marietta was incensed by this bit of pointless reserve.
To her all these older elements of her life were shabby and unimportant, pointless and to be neglected.
He thought he could not tell her because in the first place she would resent his not having taken her with him; and in the next, if he had proposed it first, she would have objected, or set another date, or asked pointless questions.
All he did seemed cheap and commonplace, mere pointless lines and stiff wooden masses.
But though bitterness rose strong against restraint, he knew that it would be pointlessand dishonorable to kill him now.
His speeches were as pointless as they were boring, and K.
Nothing would have been more nonsensical and, above all, more pointless and contemptible.
It would have been so pointlessto kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
Its purpose is to arrest innocent people and wage pointless prosecutions against them which, as in my case, lead to no result.
Waiting is not pointless," said the businessman, "it's only pointless if you try and interfere yourself.
You want to see some point in it while you're carrying out something as pointless as it could be?
For though I'm but a carpet-tack, Afar from moil and strife, No one can ever truly say That mine's a pointless life.
The shaft fell pointlessas she turned her sparkling face toward her women.
It was a more or less pointless witticism, but it had a humorous quotable flavor, and it made Evans mad.
It is melancholy to hear them jabber over the same pointless anecdotes three and four times of an evening, forgetting that they had jabbered them over three or four times the evening before.
Till Eulenspiegel again forms a class by himself, as the personified quiz, mostly pointless enough, of particular classes and professions.
Their inane anecdotes, theirpointless observations are positively courted.
He would manufacture out of even the most pointless item of news two paragraphs by adding to his first the words, "This reminds us of Mr. Punch's famous story.
It would be pointlessto do more than roughly sketch the period of three years during which the various changes which saw the complete elimination of Cowperwood from Philadelphia and his introduction into Chicago took place.
I do not know why he jeered at me, it was always rather pointless jeering and far below his usual level, but jeer he did.
