Masuccio's world is that of the free-living southern noble.
At the opening of the twelfth century the Carolingian Cycle had begun to lose its vogue among the polished aristocracy of France.
It is that of a most attractive young woman who was married to a worthless husband, but lived faithfully with him for several years, and became the mother of three children.
Study your Bible and you will find out the Lord needs no man; the best of us are but worthless cumberers of the ground.
As a worthless symbol of what no longer exists, allow me to throw it away.
I did not, Mr Gurton; but I feel that I am such a worthless fellow that my life was not worth preserving.
Natural resources, in the absence of local manufacturers, become worthless without means of transportation to the coast for export.
There are undoubtedly many rich fields of petroleum in the interior of the country, but it is clear that they are worthless without adequate means of transporting the product to the seaports or centers of consumption.
There is little evidence to support this belief, and just as little ground for the more recent belief held by some that old seed is particularly liable to produce loose worthless heads.
A frosted cauliflower is practically worthless for market, as it is nearly certain to turn black on the surface after one or two days' exposure.
And as for thisworthless shepherd, the sword should be upon his arm and in his right eye; his arm shall be dried up, and his right eye utterly darkened.
The evil of the practice too prevalent among company commanders, of sending skulkers and worthless men in obedience to a detail for the ambulance corps, was now horribly apparent.
But indeed Conviction, were it never so excellent, is worthless till it convert itself into Conduct.
It is like a forged bank-note; they get it passed out of their worthless hands: others, not they, have to smart for it.
Government on leave and continued to put out worthless checks, using his passport for identification.
Another one paid for his passport renewal with a worthless check.
Left the United States paying for his passage with a worthless check.
Another man had been involved in a number of fraudulent schemes in various countries, issued worthless checks.
Be always the good and sincere girl you have hitherto been; and think of me as a worthless lover, but a faithful friend.
In the latter aspect her d'Urberville descent was a fact of great dimensions; worthless to economics, it was a most useful ingredient to the dreamer, to the moralizer on declines and falls.
The somewhat unusual proceeding of putting a worthless dog on shore, instead of the more common expedient of killing him at once, is only another evidence of the poet's kindly heart.
To hold no converse but with senseless trees, To have no friendship but with wandering goats, And worthlessreptiles that infest the ground-- Can man be happy in so dull a scene?
If the dog is as worthless as I think he is, I'll get rid of him.
He can't be the same worthlesswhelp I wanted to get rid of!
He wrote to me lately, 'Ellen, my life would be utterly worthlesswithout you.
I've spent two weeks clearing from my lifeworthless trash, all the debris that a man accumulates living as many years in the world as I have.
I suppose I am indebted for my incarceration to the oath of a worthless man, who was arraigned before me and fined for abusing and maltreating his lame, helpless brother.
Many a boasted friend has proved a leaking, worthless “lifeboat” when the storm of adversity might make him useful.
How is it that the loving father of one family is taken by death, while the worthless incumbrance of another is spared?
Strange and dark was the expression that settled on Brandon's face as he regarded this seemingly worthless trinket.
Yet let me thank you for this worthless life-- Worthless indeed, could I so lightly join So grave a cause as yours.
For the rest of the summer the widowed osprey always stayed about when the fisherman hauled his net on the beach, and bore away to her nest the worthless fish he left in it for her special benefit.
Some people would prefer the sight of this majestic bird to the small, worthless fish he eats.
These transitory things, however, do last for a little while, and, although worthless as a final end and object to live for, are necessary and valuable as means.
From her infancy a tool in the hands of unprincipled men; forced to marry a man utterly worthless in every respect; almost without one true friend, without a soul for her woman’s heart to cling to.
Everywhere was a thick litter of discarded and ragged garments, old sea-boots, leaky oilskins--all the worthless forecastle dunnage of a long voyage.
All your experience of men and things isworthless here.
It is wonderful how the thing, worthless as it is, can be made even by the most starving fingers for such a price.
Time was when the worthless canvases of West and Morland were equally transmutable into gold.
The accumulated capital of the South had disappeared in worthless Confederate stocks, bonds, and currency.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "worthless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
