unfruitfulness

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Times of apparent unfruitfulness do come, times of drought do fall upon us, but they pass, for silently, secretly God works on and on.

From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by Jackson, J. Dodd (James Dodd)

During the time we were with them, they attributed to his displeasure their want of success in taking fish as they had done in former times, and the unfruitfulness of their bread-fruit and cocoa trees.

From A Narrative of the Shipwreck, Captivity and Sufferings of Horace Holden and Benj. H. Nute Who were cast away in the American ship Mentor, on the Pelew Islands, in the year 1832; and for two years afterwards were subjected to unheard of sufferings among the barbarous inhabitants of Lord North's island by Holden, Horace

Nothing in divine or human ordinances seemed hidden from him; he even foresaw the unfruitfulness of the land many years before it came.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max

He saw well the illusoriness and unfruitfulness of such a universe as Spinoza dreamed.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 by Various

In financial matters he had little experience or authority; he had to depend on his colleagues and he complained of their unfruitfulness.

From Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire by Headlam, James Wycliffe