bootless errand
Example Sentences
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He had come out on a bootless errand, to save 171 the lives of certain men, if it might be.
From The Shepherd of the North by Maher, Richard Aumerle
You said my father had gone on a bootless errand.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir
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 Ordway, Edith B.
The cackling and talking has come to naught, as it mostly does," said he grunting to himself; "but beshrew me if I like a bootless errand.
From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John
