bootless

Example Sentences

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Bootless as these journeys proved, so far as their main object was concerned, there is no doubt that in many ways they effected a large amount of good.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

Bootless are plaints, and cureless are my wounds; No way to fly, nor strength to hold out flight.

From King Henry VI, Part 3 by Shakespeare, William

Bootless Inlet, S.S.W.; peak of Astrolabe above Kaili, E.S.E. 7th.—Our friend Lohiamalaka turned up again last evening; he did not like leaving us. 

From Adventures in New Guinea by Chalmers, James

Bootless, half-naked, and half-asleep, we hurried into the cellar.

From The Red Horizon by MacGill, Patrick

Bootless grief hurts a man’s self, but patience makes a jest of an injury.

From Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources by Clouston, William Alexander