bootless errand

Example Sentences

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Vaillant returned from his bootless errand; and a stormy correspondence followed between the two governors.

From Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV by Parkman, Francis

I would rather have a double purpose than a bootless errand, any day?

From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John

But no guides were to be found, and in the next summer the young man returned from his bootless errand.

From A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II by Parkman, Francis

"I will be there," replied the duke; "but if I am brought on a bootless errand, not even my royal father shall save thee from chastisement."

From Windsor Castle by Ainsworth, William Harrison

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 Cooper, James Fenimore