I should be willing, sir, to think it was a young man's rashness, or perhaps the rage of a successless rival; yet he might have spared some words.
We cannot always distinguish between the ironical and the serious.
The hero he celebrates made a brave but successless attempt to rescue it from slavery.
Pray leave me; and pray assure yourself you cannot take any method so successless to show any regard for me, as entering into schemes so frightful to Madame Duval, and so disagreeable to myself.
He was satisfied, I suppose, with his former successless efforts to draw me out or, rather, I fancied he had been inquiring who I was.
Such was the successless armament of Xerxes described by Herodotus, or the successful expedition of Alexander related by Arrian.
That may succeed with one which may prove successless with another: There is no community or commonweal of Virtue: Every man must study his own oeconomy, and adapt such rules unto the figure of himself.
