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Sentences ending with worthless

And the stock which you sold to poor Garvin was so hopelessly watered that it never could have been anything but worthless. [9]
Langeron, trying as virulently as possible to sting Weyrother's vanity as author of the military plan, argued that Bonaparte might easily attack instead of being attacked, and so render the whole of this plan perfectly worthless. [2]
What had seemed to him grand, lofty, and worthy of the exertion of all his strength on that night when he sat before the tent where lay the delirious Ephraim, to-day lay far behind him as idle and worthless. [10]
But you see, the ledge will not prove to be worthless. [5]
I have not sent it to you, for it is dear and worthless. [4]
He had been paid with it in New York, and found it usually at a discount--sometimes even worthless. [5]
Many times I have come bearing flowers such as my garden grew; but now I offer you this poor, brown, homely growth, you may cast it away as worthless. [6]
Everything which had formerly withheld me from the pursuits of learning now seemed worthless. [10]
He bought them for very little, and I had always thought them worthless. [9]
Your claim may be good, and it may be worthless. [5]

More example sentences with the word worthless in them

There was a worthless vine that (or who) started up about midway between a grape-trellis and a row of bean-poles, some three feet from each, but a little nearer the trellis. [4]
This broken and worthless thing, it is true, was powerful to justify her in the opinions of her judges and her enemies; with this in her hand she would easily confute her accusers. [10]
When she was widowed, and he found her in dire poverty, he helped her with a large share of his savings, and performed this kind service again, when the second worthless fellow she married had squandered her last penny. [10]
When the paper was brought to my house, my wife said to me, "Now are you going to take another worthless little paper? [7]
What is the use of your saving money that is so utterly worthless to you? [5]
Next I entered upon an affluent career in Virginia City, and by a judicious investment of labor and the capital of friends, became the owner of about all the worthless wild cat mines there were in that part of the country. [5]
But you put up a pint of all kinds of worthless rubbish, and heave in some red stuff to make it beautiful--red's the main thing--and he wouldn't put down that glass to go to a circus. [5]
He has already turned his state-room into a museum of worthless trumpery, which he has gathered up in his travels. [5]
How am I to preserve self-control, calmness, patience, when I see her in the arms of that handsome young demi-god whom I scorned only yesterday as a worthless scoundrel? [10]
For the first time he felt how great a danger he ran of being dragged into this marsh and becoming a lost, evil man; but never, he thought, would he have been so corrupt, so worthless, as this prince. [10]
I myself have thousands of dollars of worthless stock in my safe. [9]
How worthless was this mighty power which he had gained, how hateful, when he could not bestow the smallest fragment of it upon one whom he loved? [9]
How worthless would this man's help be! [10]
I will have them set with the most precious stones; even diamonds will seem worthless to me compared with this gift from you. [10]
These reasons were the treachery of the Austrians, a defective commissariat, the treachery of the Pole Przebyszewski and of the Frenchman Langeron, Kutuzov's incapacity, and (it was whispered) the youth and inexperience of the sovereign, who had trusted worthless and insignificant people. [2]
Everything else in the garden seemed to him worthless by comparison. [10]
The fire of the forge, by whose means pieces of worthless iron were transformed into swords and ploughshares, should use its influence upon her also. [10]
She had flung the first tangible token of his love into the insatiable jaws of a worthless profligate, like a copper coin thrown as alms to a beggar. [10]
As I drew the curtain a worthless lascar sailor fell fainting into my cabin. [11]
He now perceived, that power cannot be thrown aside like a worthless thing. [10]
Gone,--both gone--the worthy taken and the worthless spared, in me! [5]
But you invent some worthless thing to amuse yourself with, and would throw it away if let alone, and all of a sudden the whole world makes a snatch for it and out crops a fortune. [5]
But I am so worthless that it seems to me I never do anything or accomplish anything that lingers in my mind as a pleasant memory. [5]
If the ledge should prove to be worthless, we'd sell the water for money enough to give us quite a lift. [5]
It is a shame that we must continue to use a worthless system because it was good a thousand years ago. [5]
We're permitted to seize those other things because they're just baubles, we've both found out how worthless they are. [9]
He had been saying in his little talk that poverty is no excuse for irreligion, and that all aid in the hardship of this world was vain and worthless unless the sinner laid hold on eternal life. [4]
Once he even said, in so many words, that our people down here were quite interesting to him, notwithstanding they were so dull and ignorant and trivial and conceited, and so diseased and rickety, and such a shabby, poor, worthless lot all around. [5]
It was the rascality of a minister and a contractor five years before that lost the battle; and the cause of the defeat was worthless ammunition. [4]
His body was pulled out by men on a tugboat, and his worthless stock certificate was in his pocket. [9]
They reviled the pride of the priests, and their senseless, worthless, institutions. [10]
In the first place, you deceived the stockholders of these railways into believing their property was worthless, and in the second place, you intend to sell it to the public for much more than it is worth. [9]
Doubtless she thought of the magic goblet, now melted, which had constrained him to cast aside honour, fame, and power, as worthless rubbish, in order to obey her behest not to leave her; but though this remembrance burdened her soul, it had no decisive influence. [10]
Our poor stick of a King allowed his worthless advisers to persuade him to start back for Gien, whence he had set out when we first marched for Rheims and the Coronation! [5]
But this is not the most serious objection to the publication of these worthless details. [4]
The book has no worthless selections, almost everything it contains bearing the stamp of genius and worth. [6]
Her heart was no longer free, and precisely because he was worthy of the whole affection of a loyal heart she would not repay him in worthless metal for the pure gold of his love. [10]
But innocent Yates never suspected that Stephen's promise to pay promptly at the end of the week was a worthless one. [5]
We had no money, not even the worthless scrip that Congress issued; but a beaver skin was worth eighteen shillings, a bearskin ten, and a fox or a deer or a wildcat less. [9]
I have seen men hunt over a pile of nearly worthless quartz for an hour, and at last find a little piece as large as a filbert, which was rich in gold and silver--and this was reserved for a fire-assay! [5]
Since you ask me," continued Prince Andrew, becoming irritable--as he was always liable to do of late--"I can only say that if there are any misunderstandings they are caused by that worthless woman, who is not fit to be my sister's companion. [2]
They lived worthless lives of sin and luxury, and died without honor--in most cases by violence. [5]
In the end it was demonstrated without the possibility of a doubt that the great "find" was nothing but a worthless seam. [5]
Like baptism, it is a worthless and meaningless rite unless the man and the woman have been born again into the Spirit, released from the law. [9]
The thought of his lost inheritance doubtless flitted through his mind, but it seemed merely like worthless dust, and the certainty that Myrtilus still walked among the living filled him with unclouded happiness. [10]
And I told him he ought to be ashamed of himself going around working off his worthless, old, green watermelons on trusting purchasers who had to rely on him. [5]
She thrusts up her plants with a vigor and freedom that I admire; and the more worthless the plant, the more rapid and splendid its growth. [4]
Some lavish demon has turned a worthless plate of gold into a costly gem.--And may I ask who it was that saw the empty setting hanging to your chain? [10]
The worthless Egyptian had, then, lied to the emperor; and it would most likely cost the scoundrel his neck. [10]
The claims we had been paying assessments on were entirely worthless, and we threw them away. [5]
Jean Jacques' father, grandfather, and great-great- grandfather had lived here, no one of them rising far, but none worthless or unnoticeable. [11]
Besides, you flung gold to yonder worthless rabble. [10]
This would likewise give him the power of turning every mineral, even the most worthless, into pure gold, as easily as I might turn my spinning-wheel or say a Paternoster. [10]
The tomatoes are getting tired of ripening, and are beginning to go into a worthless condition,--green. [4]
They're waiting to get the city into a snarl, and then rob the houses--pack of dirty, worthless whelps. [8]
It was far from being the General's fault that Mr. Hopper and others made money in mules and worthless army blankets. [9]
It is good for steamboating, and good to drink; but it is worthless for all other purposes, except baptizing. [5]
Of course the fire-assay would demonstrate that a ton of such rock would yield hundreds of dollars--and on such assays many an utterly worthless mine was sold. [5]
It is a few worthless seconds since you have got your freedom. [11]
Nor can worthless eldest sons with entailed estates squander their wealth. [1]
He has a charming daughter and a worthless son. [9]
Nothing was burnt but the letters from Amasis to thy father, and a worthless old chest. [10]
I answered, no--courteously, but still, no; explaining that I could not afford to be placed in the attitude of trying to influence people with a mere worthless guess. [5]
He asked nothing but good pay for blood and toil, good pay, not coppers and worthless promises. [10]
Ever since your betrothal your mother and I have had no sleep, disturbed whenever we talked to each other about your being condemned to live under the same roof with that old devil, the countess, her pitiable daughter, and that worthless Siebenburg. [10]
It pleases me because, if the ledges prove to be worthless, it will be a pleasant reflection to know that others were beaten worse than ourselves. [5]
I refused it--not because I think the claim is worth a cent for I don't but because I had a curiosity to see how high it would go, before people find out how worthless it is. [5]
The novel, mediocre, banal, merely sensational, and worthless for any purpose of intellectual stimulus or elevation of the ideal, is thus encouraged in this age as it never was before. [4]
He finished his argument by reminding me that worthless persons sought to enter the arts in the search for a fool's paradise, and in order to satisfy a reprehensible craving for notoriety. [9]
The ground vines are torn, trampled, and withered; and the ungathered cucumbers, worthless melons, and golden squashes lie about like the spent bombs and exploded shells of a battle-field. [4]
The image of Arachne illumined by the lamplight, which Althea had showed him, appeared like worthless jugglery, and he soon drove it back into the darkness which surrounded him. [10]
He is worthless and unworthy, but it is largely my fault. [5]
Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country. [5]
These were nearly all "wild cat" mines, and wholly worthless, but nobody believed it then. [5]
My daughter gave a worthless tempter the right to expect the worst from her. [10]
The schemer located a worthless ledge, sunk a shaft on it, bought a wagon load of rich "Comstock" ore, dumped a portion of it into the shaft and piled the rest by its side, above ground. [5]
Sometimes you find a diamond which is not a diamond; it is only a quartz crystal or some such worthless thing. [5]
I formerly made a collection of above a score of such aphorisms, but they are almost worthless, as their wide difference and number prove the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of the attempt. [1]

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