bootless errand
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It was on their return from this bootless errand the day previous to the drawing of the conscription that I had fallen in with the two peasants.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 by Various
After he had traversed it he had the poor reward of finding himself on a bootless errand.
From Benjamin Franklin by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)
De Ruyter drew off with his convoy, and Sandwich returned from a bootless errand.
From Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 by Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of
"I will be there," replied the duke; "but if I am brought on a bootless errand, not even my royal father shall save thee from chastisement."
From Windsor Castle by Ainsworth, William Harrison
A′pril-fool, one sent upon a bootless errand on the 1st of April, perhaps a relic of some old Celtic heathen festival.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
