How To Use Bootless In A Sentence
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But arguing with people who don't want to hear is fundamentally bootless.
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Determining who has said nastier things about whom is a bootless enterprise.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A thing of beauty stands where only bootless cries would have been.
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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
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After the bootless repair mission, Gnat napped and I worked.
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Common Rule does not give an answer, and it is bootless to look for a precise formula or quota.
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One is apt to imagine so, in considering the history of that royal race, in whose behalf so much fidelity, so much valor, so much blood were desperately and bootlessly expended.
The History of Henry Esmond
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I wasted two weeks trying to redesign the front page, which was bootless; I ended up redoing it with new graphics which are nearly identical to the old.
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I would never be able to find Italy on a map," said Luigi bootlessly.
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The Mandáyas, enraged at the loss of their property bootlessly bestowed on the priest, threatened to make an attack upon the people of the Agúsan.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
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Colina, alternately cajoling and commanding, pursued him bootlessly.
The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest
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Hitchens gave short shrift to the "insulting" suggestion that cancer might persuade him to change his position where reason had not, arguing that to ditch principles "held for a lifetime, in the hope of gaining favour at the last minute" would be a "hucksterish choice", and urging those who had taken it upon themselves to pray for him not to "trouble deaf heaven with your bootless cries".
Christopher Hitchens dies aged 62
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He intended to unlimber the part of him which had longed so bootlessly for Her Nibs these last three weeks and use it to hose down their dead faces.
Wizard and Glass
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Still, it is bootless to argue with theologians, especially when they wear purple or crimson.
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He screams, he stamps, he curses all heaven with his bootless cries.
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So it is bootless for someone to ask for some further reassurance; that can only add to his stock of beliefs.
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And the men appeared, some of his watch, others of the second mate's watch, routed from sleep -- men coatless, and hatless, and bootless; men ghastly-faced with fear but eager for once to spring to the orders of the man who knew and could save their miserable lives from miserable death.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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Whilst making a desperate rush after one, cap in hand, and all too unheedful of the obstacles lying in my path, I struck the toes of my bootless left foot against a thin slab of earthfast stone, which stood edge-on and straight up.
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One should never greet a mystery guest bootlessly.
Sweetblood
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He subsequently surfaced in aficcione, a tale of his bootless pursuit of a reclusive poetess, modeled on one I'd met on-line.
My Fictional Tormenter
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Daniel made no effort to conceal his bootlessness when the guests rose to leave the table; without giving the astonishment of his companions a single thought, he once more drew the patent leather torturers on to his extremities.
Gänsemännchen. English
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Aside: Spent ages hunting, fruitlessly — or bootlessly, if you prefer — for this on YouTube after a pal old us about it.
Archive 2007-04-01
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But my hands had been tied behind my back and when my bootless feet slipped on the ice I had no way of catching myself.
On Desperate Seas « A Fly in Amber
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The attack was bootless and the guards immediately arrested Meir, the hero of the ghetto.
Heroic
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And the men appeared, some of his watch, others of the second mate's watch, routed from sleep -- men coatless, and hatless, and bootless; men ghastly-faced with fear but eager for once to spring to the orders of the man who knew and could save their miserable lives from miserable death.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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In The Extra Man, based on a creepy comic novel by Jonathan Ames, Dano plays Louis Ives, a bootless young man who fancies himself a character out of The Great Gatsby.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Extra Man
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And the men appeared, some of his watch, others of the second mate's watch, routed from sleep -- men coatless, and hatless, and bootless; men ghastly-faced with fear but eager for once to spring to the orders of the man who knew and could save their miserable lives from miserable death.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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Yeah," Savage said, thunking his bootless foot on the table.
MINUTES TO BURN
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Yet to sojourn in San Antonio unherbed was to set off under the searing sun naked, scalped, and bootless across some scree of burning rock straight out of Cormac McCarthy.
Alamo Rag
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Yeah," Savage said, thunking his bootless foot on the table.
MINUTES TO BURN
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If their forays were bootless, in the nature of things their forays would cease.
The Golden Poppy
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There is nothing here to equal the performances in the movie, but if you haven't seen it, a visit to the play might not prove bootless.
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For those who bootlessly disgrace the name of philosophy are convicted of knowing nothing at all, as they are themselves forced, though unwillingly, to confess, since not only do they disagree with each other, but also expressed their own opinions sometimes in one way, sometimes in another.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus