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Sentences starting with futile

Futile Edward's attempts to shift the conversation to the subject of his own obsession; the German was by far the more aggressive, he would have none of it. [9]

Sentences ending with futile

The epistrategus proceeded with great caution, but his efforts also remained futile. [10]
Satiety and dissatisfaction were beginning to appear, and what he had attempted to do for the cure of his eyes had hitherto been futile. [10]
But all resistance was futile. [10]
A discussion as to whether or not his attitude is unpatriotic and selfish is futile. [9]
True, her attempt to persuade Frau Lerch to accompany her remained futile. [10]
Was it all, then, futile? [11]
Yet prayer was the sole atonement she could make for the wrong she had done her sister; so she did not cease her endeavours to plead for her to the Great Helper above, but her efforts were futile. [10]
The apprehension, therefore, that the public lands were in danger of being wrested from the General Government by the strength of the delegation in Congress from the new States, was utterly futile. [7]
But her lover sat opposite and, though she lowered her eyes, her earnest endeavour to concentrate her thoughts was futile. [10]
And, in spite of everything, Alba's harshness had been futile. [10]

More example sentences with the word futile in them

And yet, and yet," he added, half sadly, "how futile has been all our fighting, so far as human eye can see. [11]
He knew too well the old feud between their houses, the ambition that had possessed many a Vaufontaine to inherit the dukedom of Bercy, and the Duke's futile revolt against that possibility. [11]
Others preferred to watch this futile battle rather than give themselves up to the anxiety which filled their minds. [10]
He is going to the Antarctic to find the futile thing, but the necessary thing so far as the knowledge of the world is concerned. [11]
Her faithful clinging to hope was rewarded, for when one day, with drooping head, she returned home from another futile errand, she found Hannibal Melas there, as bearer of important news. [10]
Not futile was thy toil, if thou canst see That for thy sons fruit from one seed appears. [10]
Yet all her thoughts and pondering were futile, and when she lay down again she slept until mass. [10]
Some indeed, in the red futile sacrifice, had found what they came to find; but some still were left whose recklessness did not avail. [11]
My discontent with the futile end of the tale as I originally knew it and saw it was justified. [11]
It was clear that Judge Carcasson felt deeply the dangers of the crisis, and that the futile outburst had merely been the agitated protest of the helpless. [11]
When the first shock of her futile appeal to Lassiter had passed, Jane took his cold, silent condemnation and abrupt departure not so much as a refusal to her entreaty as a hurt and stunned bitterness for her attempt at his betrayal. [13]
There was no selfish lamenting, no reproaches, none of the futile banalities of the lover who fails to see that it is no crime for a woman not to love him. [11]
Yet it all seemed to me so futile, despite the wonder of his personality, that I could make nothing of him, and though always fascinated by his character I was held back from exploiting it, because of the hopelessness of it all. [11]
As she now sat, pen in hand, the thought of how little she had done, how futile had been all her crusade, came to her. [11]
How futile the power of man--'stand what I mean? [11]
It was a pity to bring those futile Maxims along. [5]
But a fathomless pity stirred her heart, that Philip's life had been so futile and that all he had done was come to naught. [11]
Twilight-dusk-night came upon Parpon and his dead--the woman whom an impish fate had put into his heart with mockery and futile pain. [11]
Hannah, too, was outraged by Lise's costume, and had also been moved to protest; futile protest. [9]
Tarboe, on the other hand, admired the frank, pleasant face of the young man, which carried still the irresponsibility of youth, but which conveyed to the watchful eye a brave independence, a fervid, and perhaps futile, challenge to all the world. [11]
There is but one among the redeemed that would do it; and it is futile to hope that that one has not already done it--Joan of Arc. [5]
The futile round of society life while it lasts admits of no rival. [4]
Once in her musings she thought that this tendency of hers to rebound was as sad as it was futile. [13]
I would just like to see Howells get down to his work and explain, and lie, and work his futile and inventionless subterfuges when that princess comes raging in here and wanting to know. [5]
The picture of Kathleen and the other man was pushed into the distance; thoughts of Billy and his infamy were thrust under foot--how futile to think of them! [11]
Coincident with the increase of these futile extravagances was the increase of his fanatical patriotism, which at last found vent in seditious writings, agitations, the purchase of rifles, incitement to rebellion, and the formation of an armed, liveried troop of dependants at the Manor. [11]
The sea roared in upon Plemont and Grosnez, battering the rocks in futile agony. [11]
Life was grim in so much of it, futile in more, feeble at the best, foolish in the light of a single generation or a single century or a thousand years. [11]
Wolf's representations and imploring entreaties remained as futile as those of Sister Hyacinthe and the abbesses of the Clare Sisters and the Convent of the Holy Cross, who had sought her by the confessor's wish. [10]
There followed two hours and a futile waste of ammunition, the lead from the garrison flying harmless here and there, and not a patch of skin or cloth showing. [9]
As for art, he will go his own way, and any opposition would be futile. [10]
If she could have forced herself to silence the desire of her heart, it would have been futile. [10]
His first impulse had been to tell the Duke that to introduce him to the Countess would be futile, for he was already married. [11]
The Vicomte, who had been acting very strangely during the meal, showed unmistakable signs of a futile anger. [9]
It surely was futile that her mother should have suffered all those years, with little to cheer her, while her daughter should be radiant in health and with a mind free from care or sadness. [11]
So, after various futile attempts to make the new-comers talk, they paid no further heed to them, and Orion's secretary became the chief speaker. [10]
Everything seemed so futile and insignificant in comparison with the stern and solemn train of thought that weakness from loss of blood, suffering, and the nearness of death aroused in him. [2]
At length his further advance appeared futile, for the reason that the stream disappeared in a split at the base of immense rocks over which he could not climb. [13]
Waiting, I turn from the futile, the human, Gone is the life of me, laughing with youth; Steals to learn all in the face of a woman, Mendicant Truth. [11]
Waiting, I turn from the futile, the human, Gone is the life of me, laughing with youth Steals to learn all in the face of a woman, Mendicant Truth! [11]
Not until yesterday evening, when all was too late, did I learn that Bai's proposal had been futile. [10]
His outbursts, his efforts to stop the flow of them were not unlike the futile charges of a large and powerful animal harassed by a smaller and more agile one. [9]
If the worshipper does not appeal to the statue, but to the goddess, I fear it will be no less futile. [10]
How much time do we waste in futile experiment? [4]
Should it please Destiny to lead Lienhard to her and inspire him with a desire for her love, all resistance, she knew, would be futile. [10]
Ah, Monsieur, the days of life are not many for him: his shame and his futile aims are killing him. [11]
From a far corner of the country he had read the story of Charley's death; of the futile trial of the river-drivers afterwards, ending in acquittal, and the subsequent discovery of the theft of the widows' and orphans' trust-moneys. [11]
Fournel's mind was conscious of this feeling, this sense of futile, foolish waste and disfigurement, even as the Seigneur said "Three! [11]
Any effort to change her father's mood now--she saw it plainly--would be futile. [10]
He allowed the careful Bithynian to throw a coverlet over him and draw the hood of his cloak over his head, but his entreaties and warnings were futile. [10]
That one had been postmarked at the capital, and as he had sat at his counter at the post-office waiting for closing time he bad turned it over and over with many ejaculations and futile guesses. [9]
Why should this be exacted of him, this futile penalty? [11]
In doing this Barbara's caution in not calling Erasmus by name proved to have been futile, for Cassian had recognised him, and told the ecclesiastics what he knew. [10]
Her thoughts went back to the idle and futile life that she had led for so many years. [10]
Would not the attempt to cut loose from the consequences of that mistake in my individual case have been futile? [9]
His father's wiser and more experienced judgment had decided that the better course was to serve his people as mediator between them and the Arabs rather than to attempt futile resistance at the head of Byzantine troops. [10]
Nothing, least of all, futile self-torturing regret for faults committed, should cloud the fair morning dawning anew for him, which summoned him to active work, to gratitude and love. [10]
But it is all futile now, as I say. [11]
But even had a magic spell doubled my ability, the toil would still have been futile. [10]
The meeting, after a futile session, broke up dismally. [9]
When, after many a futile errand, she had been refused also by the lord chamberlain, she turned her steps to Baron Malfalconnet's palace. [10]

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