profitless

The girls were impressed and their hearts ached for Dan Higgins, his years of hope and work and his profitless mine.

Comment on it came of a design to show that the whole game had been examined dismissed as uninteresting and profitless.

But it was not a profitless one: I used to have inspirations as I sat there alone those nights.

All the craft which he afterward showed in negotiations would have been profitless without a competent and trusty interpreter.

In Rome they spent another month—a period of sight-seeing, enjoyable, but to Clemens pretty profitless.