bootless errand
Example Sentences
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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
Howard replied: “I know it is a bootless errand to ask justice from Thorbiorn, but I will do thy will in this matter.”
From Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by Ebbutt, M. I. (Maud Isabel)
Shirley, the governor of Massachusetts, had returned from his bootless errand to settle the boundary question at Paris.
From Montcalm and Wolfe by Parkman, Francis
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
After he had traversed it he had the poor reward of finding himself on a bootless errand.
From Benjamin Franklin by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)
