bootless errand

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The cackling and talking has come to naught, as it mostly does," said he grunting to himself; "but beshrew me if I like a bootless errand.

From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John

But no guides were to be found, and in the next summer the young man returned from his bootless errand.

From A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II by Parkman, Francis

"Because," was the reply, "you ride of a bootless errand."

From The Handbook of Conundrums by Ordway, Edith B.

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

Vaillant returned from his bootless errand; and a stormy correspondence followed between the two governors.

From Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV by Parkman, Francis