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
"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
Being in a more advanced stage of toilet than H. C., we marched forth in search of the landlord on what we hoped would not prove a bootless errand.
From Glories of Spain by Wood, Charles W. (William)
You said my father had gone on a bootless errand.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir
