inutility
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The failure, too, of the Granville-Gortschakoff negotiations to define a neutral zone had convinced this country of the inutility of solving the question between the two countries by treaty.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Boulger, Demetrius Charles
Nevertheless the inadequacy, the inutility of her method of life was very forcibly presented to her, and she seemed to be beating at the bars of her cage.
From Burning Sands by Weigal, Arthur
The negative character—like Marie’s—just yields to the modern facts and is swept along by them into final irresponsibility and inutility.
From The Women of Tomorrow by Hard, William
In spite of its commercial inutility, there are few trees of the South American forest more interesting than the manguba.
From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Reid, Mayne
No words could express the dulness and inutility of a collection which should embrace all the Roxburghe and Pepys broadsides—a scope with which this publication was most undeservedly credited by an English journal.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
Ulysses Aldrovandus was a celebrated naturalist of the sixteenth century, and his work on natural history, in thirteen folio volumes, contains with much that is valuable a large proportion of fables and inutilities.
From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Bulfinch, Thomas
We never grudged millions to burrow beneath New York for light, or for drink or speed, why then should we grudge them for the beautiful inutilities that might make the surface of the city splendid.
From The Collectors by Mather, Frank Jewett
A gentleman, on the contrary, in addition to his other noble inutilities, is useless as an almanac.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various
Let none therefore be surprised if our love fastens on these majestic dogmas, by which we are more and more overshadowed, on these higher inutilities which are our vocation.
From Underground Man by Tarde, Gabriel
