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But I was young, I was but seven years of age, and vain, foolish, and anxious to attract attention. [5]
But the long years of penance had not been in vain. [9]
Thus Elie Mattingley would not die in vain! [11]
And now this world with all its vain show had plumped down in the midst of them. [4]
Give me boldness without rashness, and hope without vain thinking. [11]
It was flooded with level, yellow rays of light that seemed to be searching the corners in vain for dust. [9]
Everywhere the restless white rays of the searchlights pierced the darkness, seeking, but seeking in vain. [9]
No; her arms which she had thrown up as if to fly, fell by her side it was all in vain. [10]
You are right when you accuse me of having laid too much stress upon vain trifles. [10]
All their efforts were in vain, till it came to the one next the youngest. [5]
All of which went to show that Mr. Goodrich had not referred to the Middle Ages in vain. [9]
All through the week chosen orators wrestled in vain. [9]
Her father, the wealthy Krates, made every effort to keep her from entering the service of the Queen, but in vain. [10]
But the effort was vain. [10]
In vain it was sought to draw him into the friendly circles of gossiping idlers and officials. [11]
Fastidious as he was in appearance, Pierre was not vain. [11]
In vain he was asked to play cards. [11]
This, she felt, was a noble action; still she urged him again and again to grant her wish, but always in vain. [10]
But all in vain. [5]
He was not vain. [2]
I was born vain, I guess. [5]
How could this vain, foolish sport have pleased her after she had yielded herself, soul and body, to the highest and greatest of men! [10]
And did this vain woman go to rest with costly gold ornaments? [10]
She tried in vain to rouse herself from the lethargy into which she had fallen, to cast off the spell. [9]
It was in vain this time that his anteroom was filled with people waiting for his return. [10]
It was in vain that the Church herself had, from time to time, been inclined to compromise. [9]
It was in vain that he applied to his business acquaintances and friends; it was a period of sudden panic and no money. [5]
At last the vain struggle was ended by an interruption from without. [10]
He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it. [5]
They bathed that vain mind in the illusion that it could see into the secret springs of experience. [11]
They were a vain and boastful company of heroes when the tale was done. [5]
They strive in vain against inborn temperament. [5]
The Honourable Hilary, trying in vain to suppress his agitation, rose to his feet. [9]
Afterwards he often tried to remember these words, but always in vain. [10]
In vain she tried to be interested in it. [4]
So she continued to watch and listen unweariedly, day after day and evening after evening, but always in vain. [10]
Barbara was obliged to wait some time in vain. [10]
But all efforts to stop the growth of the city were vain. [4]
It is vain to seek reason outside ourselves; the highest to which we can attain is for reason to behold itself in us! [10]
Pierre went up to him, though he knew his attempt would be vain. [2]
The birches wanted to come too, but being vain, stopped to put on white dresses, to outdo the others. [10]
Twice, thrice, four times, she tried to wrench her hand with a sudden jerk through the fingers that grasped it; but each time in vain. [10]
Leonidas and his three hundred Spartans did not die in vain, so long as there are men ready to follow their example. [10]
In vain he thought of the tragedy of Garvin . [9]
And just at this time he obtained the tranquillity and ease of mind he had formerly striven in vain to reach. [2]
He knows that they who build without woman build in vain, and that she is the great regenerator, as she is the great destroyer. [4]
Is it vain then to strive after righteousness and virtue that Thou givest us over unto death, and dost not fight for us? [10]
Of late years their books may be searched in vain for evidence of the use of political funds. [9]
Search even for their bodies is in vain. [5]
The preacher said the world was wicked and vain. [4]
What a customer the vain darling, who was very ambitious, promised to become in the future as the wife of a rich aristocrat! [10]
Pollux, safe in the prison at Canopus, cursed his destiny and indulged in vain hopes of the assistance of his friends. [10]
That face for the moment was New York to Margaret, and New York seemed a vain show. [4]
Every attempt of the man who had once held so proud a position to get his release, by an act of the senate, proved vain. [10]
The sacrifice of the good priest had not been in vain, and he came back with the joyous news of a peaceful conquest. [9]
In vain had the faithful Bowman put them off. [9]
The editor of the Bradford Champion did not have to use his yellow cardboard, yet his columns may be searched in vain for the event. [9]
I may add that my son, Mr. F. Darwin, finds that Dermestes murinus stridulates, but he searched in vain for the apparatus. [1]
In vain I summoned my faculties to meet it. [9]
In vain I strained my eyes for some one who might have authority with them. [9]
Twice, three times, Siebenburg rapped, but in vain. [10]
She took nothing seriously; she was too vain. [11]
Here is the seat of Elfonzo; darkness claims but little victory over this dominion, and in vain does she spread out her gloomy wings. [5]
As Patsy Kernaghan said, he himself watched, and he paid the Chinaman to watch, in the vain belief that money would secure faithful service. [11]
For suffering without revelation were vain, indeed! [9]
In vain she resolved against allowing herself any society or change of scene until she had accomplished her labour. [14]
I feel mighty proud of that degree; in fact, I could squeeze the truth a little closer and say vain of it. [5]
In vain they pressed about him, in vain they even pulled the fringe of his shirt to gain his attention. [9]
In vain he pleaded, in caressing undertones, that she should ride with him. [9]
In vain they pleaded they would tell their story at once. [11]
He had sought Peter in vain at the town-hall, and hoped to find him at home. [10]
I know the peasant; he believes that his labors must be vain if you deprive him of the gods that make it thrive. [10]
Such vain trifles, Paulina would say, were very well for the heathen, but the Lord looked not at the body but at the heart. [10]
That winter John Paul spent striving in vain for a better ship, and imbibing tactics from the French admirals. [9]
I may be pardoned in being vain. [5]
Then followed a panic which the priests in vain tried to quell. [11]
To add to our ill fortune, a violent current set in from the shore, and it was vain to attempt a landing. [11]
In vain did our feet seek the deeper water. [9]
Is it some other vain, brilliant, beautiful temple of soul-staining amusement and hilarity? [5]
Often, when every one was asleep, the poor lad sat studying by the ever-burning lamp in the lobby, but in vain. [10]
Was this but one more of those thousand voices, harsh and gentle, rough and tender, to which I had listened in vain this age past? [9]
All his hopes of using it in his profession to make hardened sinners confess their misdeeds, were therefore, vain. [10]
Information was sought of these spiders, but in vain. [5]
She was fond of them, but no, not vain. [11]
A long series of the sorest disappointments had rendered him distrustful, and he remembered having asked her several times for the star in vain. [10]
Prayers, tears, torturings of the flesh, all was vain to beguile that water to flow again. [5]
At the door of the court-yard she looked out and about for the Arab, but in vain. [10]
Within, the note of gentility, of that instinctive good taste to which many greater mansions aspired in vain, was sustained. [9]
Of the score of fine qualities which it imagined it had and was vain of, it really possessed hardly one. [5]
Through the rows of faces he had searched in vain for one. [9]
Were I vain, Octavianus, I might call each one of these letters a trophy of victory, an Olympic garland. [10]
But he could not, or would not, see his own vain stupidity. [11]
Your sacrifice would not, could not be in vain. [9]
Your brother ought not to have given up his young life on the battlefield for the Crown in vain. [10]
Yet he had not passed through the purifying fire of misfortune in vain! [10]
Still I have not lived in vain. [10]
His cheerfulness was not in vain, for a smile stole to her lips, though it only flickered for an instant and was gone. [11]
The judge had not held such cards for years, and it was in vain that I talked to him of consequences. [9]
Yet she had not bought the indulgence in vain. [10]
Her sacrifice had not been vain. [10]

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