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Sentences starting with vain

Vain victor who rides not in rest his lance! [11]
Vain every pictured phrase to tell Our sorrowing hearts' desire; The shattered harp, the broken shell, The silent unstrung lyre; For youth was round us while he sang; It glowed in every tone; With bridal chimes the echoes rang, And made the past our own. [6]
Vain beyond imagination. [5]
Vain lad! [11]

Sentences ending with vain

It would make you vain. [4]
But the long years of penance had not been in vain. [9]
Thus Elie Mattingley would not die in vain! [11]
The sharp, north wind which blew through the darkness did his aching head good, and still he racked his wits for some pretext to attract Hadrian from his labors, but in vain. [10]
Inform the poor widow her lad's efforts will be vain. [5]
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]
After these reflections, which again reminded him of the second appointment and of Ledscha, the sculptor turned away from his work and went to the window to look across at Pelican Island, where she must not await him in vain. [10]
Her husband did what he could to aid her and soothe her excitement by the gratification of so ardent a wish, but his efforts were vain. [10]
All of which went to show that Mr. Goodrich had not referred to the Middle Ages in vain. [9]

Short sentences using vain

But the effort was vain. [10]
But all in vain. [5]
He was not vain. [2]
It was all in vain. [6]
But all was in vain. [12]
He had appealed in vain. [11]
They grow vain enough. [9]
Siebenburg's self-reproaches had been vain. [10]
Would her errand be vain? [10]
Speculations are vain. [9]

Sentences containing vain two or more times

It was in vain that Mr. Carvel assured her it would do no good, in vain that he told her of a more important matter that claimed him. [9]
In vain they pressed about him, in vain they even pulled the fringe of his shirt to gain his attention. [9]
He struggled, he fought with panting breast, yet in vain, always in vain. [10]
Vain, vain, vain--and dishonourable, essentially dishonourable. [11]

More example sentences with the word vain in them

But I was young, I was but seven years of age, and vain, foolish, and anxious to attract attention. [5]
Smith was a young man of about twenty-eight, vain and no doubt somewhat "bumptious," and it is easy to believe that Wingfield and the others who felt his superior force and realized his experience, honestly suspected him of designs against the expedition. [4]
I am vain, you see; but then vanity is no sin when one has fine aspirations, and I aspire to you! [11]
My cousin, who would fain have hindered her from coming in, held her by the arm; and her efforts to shake off the old lady's grasp were all in vain till she caught sight of Herdegen. [10]
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]
Herr Ortlieb's invalid wife could not spare Els, her older daughter and faithful nurse, so he required Eva's obedience, and compelled her to give up her opposition to attending the festival; but she dreaded the vain, worldly gaiety--nay, actually felt a horror of it. [10]
Many a man who has come into some property after he has sold all his little antiquities has offered me ten times the price I have paid him to get them back again, generally in vain, unfortunately. [10]
After a little while it was whispered from ear to ear that the emperor would only grant a few more audiences; and how many had already waited in vain yesterday, for hours, in the same place! [10]
By the article which I have been reading I find the same things happening in the Howland School that we have become familiar with in our Children's Theatre (of which I am President, and sufficiently vain of the distinction. [5]
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 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 humble as we are, and unpretending, in the matter of art, our researches among the painted monks and martyrs have not been wholly in vain. [5]
With the Arachne--he was sure of this--he would compel even his opponents to accord him the recognition for which hitherto he had striven in 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]
Just as Dron was a model village Elder, so Alpatych had not managed the prince's estates for twenty years in vain. [2]
I see my warning was in vain, Mr. King. [4]
I think she wants it now to increase and establish and perpetuate her power and glory with, not to add to her comforts and luxuries, not to furnish paint and fuss and feathers for vain display. [5]
It was a verity--no vain, hunger-inspired delusion--it was a silver dime! [5]
Hackett was a vain, wealthy, violent gentleman, who held his blood and family in high esteem, and believed that a reverent respect was due to his great riches. [5]
Here was a vain, naturally indolent half-breed, whose life had made for selfishness and independence, giving his neck willingly to a man's heel, serving with blind reverence, under a voluntary vow. [11]
I was born vain, I guess. [5]
She looked in vain, however, for the Mrs. Crozier she had imagined made no appearance from the train. [11]
But not in vain, for some day, and every day, along the line, there is a cry, "They fly! [4]
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]
Every admonition was vain, every threat derided, and the rebellious people had forced their leaders to go with them till, after a short march, they reached the Red Sea, whose deep green waves had forced them to pause in their southward flight. [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]
I've tried in vain to get her here. [4]
She tried in vain to drive them from her mind, to listen to Mrs. Tyler's account of how she, too, came as a bride to New York from some place with a classical name, and to the advice that accompanied the narration. [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 I whipped my dull senses; but one conclusion was indicated by all this inference, and I don't care even to mention that: it was preposterous. [9]
It was in vain that I resorted to subterfuge: that I went to bed early intending to be away before the Celebrity's rising hour. [9]
It was in vain that I argued I had no direct hand in the concealing of him; I felt my responsibility quite as heavy upon me. [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]
Such is beauty!--a vain show, which only glitters to disappear, and is to fools, nevertheless, the supreme object of adoration! [10]
This was no vain self-deception; had it not been so, would he have come in person to her couch of pain, or cared for her so kindly after the accident? [10]
Those who seek vain pleasure in England take more pains to enjoy it than they would spend in New England to gain wealth, and yet have not half such sweet content. [4]
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]
She sought in vain in them for those evidences of spontaneous love, of delight in writing to her of all persons in the world, the eagerness of the lover that she recalled in letters written in other days. [4]
It is no vain imagining that I have made my goal, and if I am to bring joy to the wretched I must seek others than he. [10]
He is so vain he'd do it, just to show that he could. [11]
I seek in vain for words to express the exhilarating effect of that briny coolness on my imagination, and of the visions it summoned up of the newer, larger life into which I had marvellously been transported. [9]
Stephen looked in vain for Colonel Carvel--for Virginia. [9]
They waited in vain for a letter from Jean Jacques, but none came; nor did they hear anything from him, or of him, for a long, long time. [11]
I am not vain enough to suppose that I could win her heart, but unfortunately there are many who cannot forgive the power of attraction which she exerts over me as well as upon all. [10]
I am not vain enough to believe that it was love, that it was solely the spell of my own personality which drew him to me in that disastrous hour. [10]
The man was vain and selfish to run any risk, to do anything that might endanger her safety--that is, her happiness and comfort. [11]
They were a vain and boastful company of heroes when the tale was done. [5]
They strive in vain against inborn temperament. [5]
That it told us, with the clear and holy voice of angels, what was divine and true, but that the noise of the world and our own vain imaginings sounded louder and would not suffer us to hear. [10]
He came down upon us sideways, his legs all in a tangle, and his right arm, bent and twisted, going round and round, as if in vain efforts to get into his pocket, his fingers spread out in impotent desire to clutch something. [4]
And now surged up a dryad-like memory which had troubled him many a wakeful night, of startled, appealing eyes that sought his in vain, and of the son she had left him flinging himself into his arms in the face of chastisement. [9]
We were almost under the monstrous wall of water thundering down from above, and speech was in vain in the midst of such a pitiless crash of sound. [5]
How vain, how uncertain, and fallible, is man! [11]
After one or two vain efforts to escape, Mrs. Gregory Thorne and Lady Lawless resigned themselves to the attentions of Mr. [11]
The Honourable Hilary, trying in vain to suppress his agitation, rose to his feet. [9]
It was, in truth, hard not to betray the coming of this letter, even by a look; yet did I hide it; but when another letter was brought, not long after, all care and secrecy were vain. [10]
Afterwards he often tried to remember these words, but always in vain. [10]
In vain she tried to be interested in it. [4]
In vain she tried devices to produce that monotony of thought which sometimes brings sleep. [11]
Mr. Crewe's eye travelled from column to column, from page to page, in vain. [9]
Damia and Porphyrius took a vain pleasure in their eager discussions, and clapped with delight, as though it were a game of skill, when Gorgo laughingly checkmated her excited opponent with some unanswerable argument. [10]
Have I not told you that the gods of the heathen are unreal beings which the vain imaginings of fools have endowed with all the weaknesses and crimes of humanity? [10]
I have come to you with the conviction that I shall not have appealed in vain. [9]
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]
She looked forward to this with such firm hope as filled me with fears, when I minded me of my brother's letters, in which he never had aught to tell of but vain pleasures and pastimes. [10]
The blood mounted to the steward's head and heated his eyes and for fully a minute he strove in vain to find words to give utterance to his rage. [10]
He was invited to the banquets given by the wealthier ones, and to join the wild pranks, in which they sometimes indulged, but spite of persuasions and entreaties, always in vain. [10]
But all efforts to stop the growth of the city were vain. [4]
When it comes to selecting her ancestors she is still human, natural, vain, commonplace--as commonplace as I am myself when I am sorting ancestors for my autobiography. [5]
It is vain to seek reason outside ourselves; the highest to which we can attain is for reason to behold itself in us! [10]
Her vain attempts to rouse the sleeper, though somewhat pathetic, had in them at the same time something irresistibly ludicrous, and Pollux felt sorely tempted to laugh. [10]
I was unable to meet this argument, and the result was that when I was away from her I too began to "thrash around" among the books in a vain search for a radical with a convincing and satisfying philosophy. [9]
Desperately she tried to meet his gray eyes, in vain, desperately she tried again, fought herself as feeling and thought resurged in torment, and she succeeded, and then she knew. [13]
Pierre went up to him, though he knew his attempt would be vain. [2]
But he's gone to heaven, and 'tis vain crying for last year's breath," he added, with proud philosophy. [11]
Calling on Him to forgive our work, badly done or left undone, implies the vain supposition that we have nothing to do but to ask pardon, and that afterwards we shall be free to repeat the offence. [5]
It's in vain to fight with it; I can't do it; go on. [12]
I was indebted to Farrar for Mr. Cooke's acquaintance, and this obligation I have since in vain endeavored to repay. [9]
The birches wanted to come too, but being vain, stopped to put on white dresses, to outdo the others. [10]
She therefore explained to Caracalla, in a low whisper directly he began to speak again, that her desire to give him relief would be vain if he did not keep his eyes and lips closed. [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]
For a long time, Milo exerted all his strength to shake him oft, but in vain, and the sand of the Stadium was freely moistened by the great drops of sweat, the result of this Herculean struggle. [10]
For the fiftieth time he had waited supper for you two in vain, and in the twilight, when he had done work, his grief overcame him, and to see him weep is quite heartbreaking! [10]
Ann had had tidings of our home-coming, yet I found her not at our house, and when I had waited for her till evening, and in vain, I sought her in her own dwelling. [10]
Until we are thus divinely qualified, and willing to drink His cup, millions of vain repetitions will never pour into prayer the unction of Spirit, in demonstration of power, and "with signs following. [5]
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]
Caracalla started as though he himself had been the injured victim, and watched, but in vain, to see the supple Tarautas, who had escaped such perils before now, free himself from the weight of the German's body. [10]

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