He had almost made up his mind that further attempt was useless and that he might as well turn back, when he thought he heard a faint sound ahead.
She, therefore, soon abandoned theuseless campaign, and for a time held him in mingled awe and disdain.
It was "a useless risk of life," they assured him; "the others must have been swept away immediately.
So here hath been dawning another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it slip useless away?
Beppo in Turin and Luigi on the lake were the watch set on Countess d'Isorella; they were useless except to fortify Laura's suspicions.
Vittoria succeeded in repressing all useless signs of grief in the presence of the venerable lady, who herself showed none, but simply recommended her accepted daughter to pray daily.
What science teaches is made useless by the shortness of human existence; it absorbs all our energy in building up a machine which we shall have no time to work.
Its exaggerations make it uselessfor either praise or blame.
A grate many kontend that a mouse iz a useless kritter; but kan they prove it?
He is as harmless as a cent's wuth ov spruce gum, and as useless as a shirt button without enny button-hole.
He iz az useless az an extra pump would be in the desert ov Sarah.
But after all, tho the monkey shows evident sighns ov reazon, they are, az a means ov praktikal grace, the most useless kritters i hav ever pondered over and skratched mi head about.
He has a certain gift for inconsequence and highly etherealised frivolity; but this may be inextricably connected with his demerits, in which case it would be useless to ask him to change.
It is extraordinarily imaginative, that is the point I want to make, and it is useless to ask me why it is imaginative--that is Tchekhov's secret.
Useless pedantry of this kind spoils many a happy touch of humour, Mrs. Poyser alone perhaps having wholly escaped from it.
Twenty years ago the swarm of useless young writers discoursed on common themes in common metres imitatively, after the manner of Tennyson or of Swinburne or of Verlaine.
It seems to me, in view of this remarkable series of poems, that it is useless to look in Donne for a single consistent attitude to love.
It was uselessand disgraceful drudgery, most of it!
I cannot pray to Omnipotence and Omniscience, because it is useless to do so.
Philanthropy is a beautiful thing in its way, but it must be done by people who like it--it is useless if it is done in a grim and self-penalising way.
It's silly, of course, and there is nothing in the world so silly as useless emotion!
Anything so overpoweringly joyful and delicious and useless as all that must come out of a fulness of joy.
Coming here was like a resurrection; and I never grudged the time when I was face to face with a nasty, poky, useless life.
I won't have any useless emotion, or any bedside thoughts!
But the General returned in such a state of ill-humour that it was obviously useless to broach the subject that night.
Well, it is useless discussing the matter further at present," was the decisive rejoinder.
They were generally shrewd judges of men; and thought better of their own judgment than they did of useless conventions.
The men say," their spokesman explained, "that it is useless to fight against the Danes.
He knew that it would be uselessmaking any inquiries about Sweyn and his party.
It was useless to wait longer, for they knew that many of the Danes would, according to their custom, keep up their revelry all night.
This would be useless to you," the shipwright said, laying the second drawing aside.
And now, Edmund, as we see no hope of any general effort to drive the Danes off our coasts, 'tis useless for us to lurk here longer.
It is thought to be quite useless to write thither, since the letter which has already been sent is either held in contempt, or at least is not so much considered as it ought to be.
But by no means have I admitted that there was here any useless battology, or mere contending about words.
My mother knew it would be useless to remonstrate, for my father was unchangeable, when once he had made up his mind to anything.
Neither can your father or mother love you, nor can anybody love anybody else, in so far as they are useless to them?
But if the congenial is only the like, how will you get rid of the other argument, of the uselessness of like to like in as far as they are like; for to say that what is useless is dear, would be absurd?
And shall we be friends to others, and will any others love us, in as far as we areuseless to them?
Although they had to suffer no privation in this place, it seems to me foolish to have undertaken for such a long time such a useless task for such a trivial result.
Thus, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, the lord of useless thousands ends.
And as long as I'm such a contemptible and useless member of the community, I'll relieve you of my company.
Your ambition is great enough to render you useless and discontented, but you need something to stimulate your energy, else it will waste itself in idle dreams.
Examples of this kind it is useless to give, for they look out from every page.
The first sentence pronounces the king a tyrant, and is so often repeated heretofore by Mr. Paine, it is useless to cite any thing in proof.
That they are useless is evident, for that salvation comes by another name (Acts 4:12).
Finally, in order that no single precaution might be omitted to ensure success, we sent up the guides to reconnoitre--a most useless proceeding.
As strange to him was the solemn decorum of this scene, as to us were the useless ceremonies we every day witnessed.
She knew it would be useless to contend, so she seemed to be willing to submit to her fate.
To waste a morsel would offend the Great Spirit, and injure or render useless the medicine.
He knew it was useless to attempt to defend himself.
Whether monotheism or polytheism be the older, it is useless in our present state of knowledge to attempt to enquire.
It has been said above that the idea of the judgment of the dead is of very great antiquity in Egypt; indeed, it is so old that it is useless to try to ascertain the date of the period when it first grew up.
