bootless errand
Example Sentences
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This magnificent reasoning was of course unanswerable; and the rebuked petitioner abandoned her bootless errand in despair.
From The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney by Samuel Warren
The journey home was not very animated, for they were returning from a bootless errand.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach
Officers had been sent on the heights of Capri, one of which towers more than a thousand feet above the sea; but they returned from a bootless errand.
From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by James Fenimore Cooper
A′pril-fool, one sent upon a bootless errand on the 1st of April, perhaps a relic of some old Celtic heathen festival.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
"Because," was the reply, "you ride of a bootless errand."
From The Handbook of Conundrums by Edith B. Ordway
