bootless errand

Example Sentences

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It was on their return from this bootless errand the day previous to the drawing of the conscription that I had fallen in with the two peasants.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 by Various

You said my father had gone on a bootless errand.

From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir

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

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 Auerbach, Berthold

Ay, many may come, but few shall go back," he cried defiantly; "besides, ye come on a bootless errand.

From Tales From Scottish Ballads by Stewart, Allan