bootless

How To Use bootless In A Sentence

• But arguing with people who don't want to hear is fundamentally bootless.
• Determining who has said nastier things about whom is a bootless enterprise.
• The fairy asked Puck if he was not the knavish spirit that frightened the maidens of the villagery, that skimmed milk, and sometimes laboured in the green, and bootless made the housewife churn, and sometimes made the drink to bear no barm, and whether Puck did not mislead night wanderers, and then laugh at their harm, and do the work of hobgoblins? The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
• Selene had been convinced from the first of the bootlessness of the attempt, and was now anxious to bring the transaction to a speedy conclusion, as the hour was approaching when she and Arsinoe had to go to the papyrus factory. The Emperor — Volume 04
• And so you start imagining some other way the conversation might have gone, where I - or some more truthful and therefore more fictional version of me - start beweeping my outcast state, troubling deaf heaven with my bootless cries, hurling blunt yet heavy silverware across the Great Hall toward my foes … Open source theology - Comments
• And the fact is that millions of Negroes, as a result of centuries of denial and neglect, have been left bootless. Martin Luther King Jr.—if anyone is listening
• And what would their parents think of me, if they saw or heard the children rioting, hatless, bonnetless, gloveless, and bootless, in the deep soft snow? Agnes Grey
• A thing of beauty stands where only bootless cries would have been.
• Ross Wilbur, hunted for and bootlessly traced from Buenos Ayres in the south to the Aleutian Islands in the north. Moran of the Lady Letty
• After the bootless repair mission, Gnat napped and I worked.