Wise men and temples were questioned in vain, rich gifts vainly sent to distant oracles; none could tell the king's desire, or cure it.
After vainly waiting a moment for his father to explain the inquiry, he proceeded with the business of breakfasting more or less indifferently.
De Monts remained in France, vainly endeavoring to obtain an extension of his patent.
The court of France endeavored vainly to remedy these evils, without removing the causes, and passed various edicts to encourage the further clearance of wild land, and to stimulate settlement.
Maisonneuve, the governor, was obliged to repair to France to seek succors, for which he had vainly applied by letter.
Still grief recoils--How vainly have I strove Thy power, O Melancholy, to withstand!
With menace loud he cries, while from his hand He vainly strives to wipe the crimson stain.
Such dire effects from avarice arise, That, deaf to nature's voice, and vainly wise, With force severe endeavours to control The noblest passions that inspire the soul.
It hopes in time to roam no more; The mariner, not vainly brave, Combats the storm and rides the wave, To rest at last on shore.
That Rohaut exhausts himself by vainly endeavoring to understand how motion can exist in a plenum will not prevent our vessels from sailing to the Indies, and all motion proceeding with regularity.
The fellow swore lustily, in a voice which Jack instantly recognised as that of Quilt Arnold, and vainlyattempted to rise and draw his sword.
Jonathan, rudely pushing her aside, as she vainly endeavoured to oppose his entrance into the room; "she is here.
In the morning I retraced to head-quarters, and vainly endeavored to learn something as to the means of going down the river.
The second story of the dwelling was likewise occupied by wounded, but in a corner clustered the terrified farmer and his family, vainlyattempting to turn their eyes from the horrible spectacle.
Hearing of the coming of the army, the proprietors had vainly endeavored to gather their crops, but the negroes would not work, and they had not modern implements, whereby to mow the grain rapidly.
Bokhara alone remained unconquered, but the Ruler of that State, after vainly endeavouring to gain assistance from Afghanistan and to enlist the sympathies of the Indian Government, was compelled to sue for peace.
Since then we have been staying here, Pyefinch vainly seeking to get some employment.
I lay awake all night thinking, vainly wishing I was of age.
I went to the Bank, and found it besieged by an excited and angry crowd fighting to get in, the door locked, and the portervainly trying to put up the shutters.
I made them a present of some silk stockings, lined with plush to keep out the cold, and vainly endeavoured to make them try the stockings on before me.
I tried vainly to find Hannibal's head, and the inscription in honour of Caesar Claudius, but I found out the remains of the amphitheatre.
The Venetian consul had told me that he had beenvainly endeavouring for the last four years to get the Government of Trieste to arrange for the weekly diligence from Trieste to Mestre to pass by Udine, the capital of the Venetian Friuli.
He it was who vainly guaranteed the agreement I made with Valerio Valeri for printing my "History of Poland.
But I was desperate with love, and Armelline begged mevainly to be as I was when we first met.
He vainly asked me to try the soup, the beef, the entrees; I told him that I always punished myself thus when I came in late for a nobleman's dinner.
They had vainly induced their late abbot to make handsome offers to them, and they then proceeded by indirect means, endeavoring to stir up obstacles in their way, and to disgust them with Trieste.
He now sent them back, with these words: "Passano has been vainly endeavouring to persuade me to send these bills to Barcelona, so that they may be protested, and you arrested.
He told me he had seen me with my fair companion the night before, and that he had vainly endeavoured to find out who she was.
I vainly endeavoured to persuade her to leave the care of the child to me.
Casanova sought vainly to convince Opiz of the correctness of his solution.
In language that in later centuries was to be so often and so vainly repeated, he represents that none but Welsh-speaking clergy should be appointed, from the metropolitan down to the curate.
She could see through him to the depth of the skin, which his fencing sensitiveness vainly attempted to cover as it did the heart of him.
Speech so foreign to her ears, unnatural in tone, unmanlike even for a lover (who is allowed a softer dialect), set her vainly sounding for the source and drift of it.
She felt like one vainly trying to fly in hearing him; she felt old.
She hadvainly tried remonstrance and supplication with her father hoodwinked by his host, she refused to consider how; through wine?
For she could not but distinguish a more poignant sorrow in the seeing of the object we yearn to vainly than in vainly yearning to one unseen.
Her image floating on that noble tide, Which poets vainly pave with sands of gold, But now whereon a thousand keels did ride, Of mighty strength since Albion was allied, And to the Lusians did her aid afford.
When I recount thy worshippers of yore I tremble, and can only bend the knee; Nor raise my voice, nor vainly dare to soar, But gaze beneath thy cloudy canopy In silent joy, to think at last I look on thee.
Much as he loved Bella, he desired to win clear of the unwilling influence which she exercised on his nature, and vainly prayed for light whereby to know the necessary means to get rid of the tormenting demon.
As the twilight darkened, Bella still continued to sit at the window vainly endeavouring to forecast a doubtful future.
Oh, hands which vainly reach and grope For a familiar touch and kind!
Vainly the lonely tarn its cup Holds to the feeding skies; Unless the source be lifted up, The streamlet cannot rise: By law inexorably blent, Each is the other’s measurement.
His wife having vainly striven to persuade him to remain where he was, followed him into the cold room below with a lighted candle.
Her life had been passed at school till she was nearly twenty, and since then she had been vainly endeavouring to accommodate herself and her feelings to her mother.
But on you only had I any claim for pity and redress, and from you I determined to seek that justice which I vainly attempted to gain from any other being that wore the human form.
I struggled vainlyfor firmness sufficient to answer him, but the effort destroyed all my remaining strength; I sank on the chair, and sobbed aloud.
He had struggled vainly with his own problem, and had at last decided to read a fiery sermon by one of the early evangelists, from a volume which he happened to have.
She opened the door, but Thorpe lingered, striving vainly for the right word.
The only things they cared to eat were Indian babies; and after this horrid family had been vainly admonished for their ways by the Great Spirit they were suddenly, in the midst of a meal, turned into stone.
Young Marcel Moncourt had also disappeared; and this was serious, because he had come to visit his father and had vainly begged for the loan of five thousand dollars from Justin Stanislaws.
The inhabitants of the North make it a common topic of conversation, although they have no direct injury to fear from the struggle; but they vainly endeavor to devise some means of obviating the misfortunes which they foresee.
The eye and the fancy strain vainly into the green abysses, and wander up and down over the wealth of depths and heights, compared with which European parks and woodlands are but paltry scrub and shaugh.
She was indignant with herself because of her unhappiness, but she struggled vainly to cast it off.
What if among these things which were revealed to her but hidden from him, lay the secret of the happiness he had been so long and so vainly pursuing?
The most amiable women of the country, who had vainly displayed to him their charms, were furious: I myself was almost choked with indignation.
More like a young colt than anything else, like a young colt running for its pasture-bars, the May Girl dashed vainly up and down the edge of the cliff.
The May Girl opened her eyes and struggled vainly to raise herself on her elbow.
The duke vainlysought for some plan of deliverance.
Tibalt vainly tried to take the place by storm, and had at last to return to Valencia without accomplishing the object of his voyage.
Isung vainlyentreated the king to forbear the cruel sport, alleging that his tame bear was worth more to him than all the gold in the royal treasury; but Osantrix was not to be persuaded.
Old Berchtung, who hadvainly tried to restrain him, now followed with his sons and a small body of his men-at-arms.
The citizens of Bari clustered about the harbour not knowing what to do, and Leupold vainly sought a ship that could be got ready immediately to pursue and overtake the robber's vessel.
He vainly hoped that being married to another woman would cure him of his love for the Queen of Cornwall, and he knew that the princess loved him.
Vainly did they seek for provisions among the wreckage; but they found a well-preserved box with flint and steel, which enabled them to make a fire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vainly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aimlessly; amiss; astray; needlessly; vain
