bootless errand
Example Sentences
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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
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
Shirley, the governor of Massachusetts, had returned from his bootless errand to settle the boundary question at Paris.
From Montcalm and Wolfe by Parkman, Francis
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
Oh," said he, "you come on a bootless errand, and might as well go home again and make the best of it.
From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by Pittenger, William
