inutility
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The enemy now saw the inutility of any flank movement, and once more advanced in lines, redoubling their efforts to reach the island.
From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Gordon Stables
A very large amount of testimony, going to show the inefficiency and inutility of medicine, might be presented; but I have limited myself to a selection of some of the more striking and important.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
The negative character—like Marie’s—just yields to the modern facts and is swept along by them into final irresponsibility and inutility.
From The Women of Tomorrow by William Hard
Certainly we are drifted upon the quicksands of uncertainty by such a display of the miracle-working power, and are obnoxious to most fatal deception, which proves the total inutility and futility of such prodigies.
From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves
Is not this supremely ridiculous? and the absurdity is only heightened by the inutility, for I do not find that the Israelites were ever let off from any punishment by reason of the scapegoat.
From The Bible: what it is by Charles Bradlaugh
A gentleman, on the contrary, in addition to his other noble inutilities, is useless as an almanac.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various
Let none therefore be surprised if our love fastens on these majestic dogmas, by which we are more and more overshadowed, on these higher inutilities which are our vocation.
From Underground Man by Gabriel Tarde
Ulysses Aldrovandus was a celebrated naturalist of the sixteenth century, and his work on natural history, in thirteen folio volumes, contains with much that is valuable a large proportion of fables and inutilities.
From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
We never grudged millions to burrow beneath New York for light, or for drink or speed, why then should we grudge them for the beautiful inutilities that might make the surface of the city splendid.
From The Collectors by Frank Jewett Mather
