bootless errand
Example Sentences
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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 Willis Fletcher Johnson
I would rather have a double purpose than a bootless errand, any day?
From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling
The journey home was not very animated, for they were returning from a bootless errand.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach
Howard replied: “I know it is a bootless errand to ask justice from Thorbiorn, but I will do thy will in this matter.”
From Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by M. I. (Maud Isabel) Ebbutt
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
