bootless errand

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"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

Officers had been sent on the heights of Capri, one of which towers more than a thousand feet above the sea; but they returned from a bootless errand.

From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by Cooper, James Fenimore

"But he's gone on a bootless errand, I tell ye," continued Mrs. Garth.

From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir

He went with Saco and Azcarate on the Committee of Information to Madrid, and on his return from that bootless errand he went to Washington as the first Cuban Minister.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher

But giving it up at last, for a bootless errand, they dropped farther and farther astern, until completely out of sight.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman