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A bootless voyage they were making, since the fair had been abruptly broken up at its outset.
MICHAEL STROGOFFJULES VERNEWe scarcely dared to whisper, or to tip-toe across the workshop on bootless feet.
EASTERN NIGHTS - AND FLIGHTSALAN BOTTBootless, hatless, and coatless men often dashed to assembly sounded by the “thump, thump of the big drums.”
MANASSES (BULL RUN) NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD PARK-VIRGINIAFRANCIS F. WILSHINMany slips and falls had they on the frozen ice and slippery roads; yet was it all but a bootless chace.
A LEGEND OF READING ABBEYCHARLES MACFARLANEHow success in that enterprise might have suggested or shaped a further course of aggression, it is now bootless to conjecture.
THE FELON'S TRACKMICHAEL DOHENYDavis was partly responsible, for he promptly sent him out of the country on the bootless English mission.
THE DAY OF THE CONFEDERACYNATHANIEL W. STEPHENSONWring not your hands, 'tis bootless; use the means That may preserve you.
THE PLAYS OF PHILIP MASSINGERPHILIP MASSINGERThe bootless love that blindly strives for the welfare of the loved ones!
A WORD TO WOMENMRS. C. E. HUMPHRYAt thy age all is viewed in colors of gold, or life is rendered bootless, because we are thwarted in our ill-digested wishes.
THE BRAVOJ. FENIMORE COOPERIn the grey dawn two hatless and bootless young men came stumbling down into the laager.
WITH STEYN AND DE WETPHILIP PIENAARWORDS RELATED TO BOOTLESS
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.