resultless
Example Sentences
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The heroic attempts of Kalt, Dörnberg, Schill, and Lützow fell resultless on the indifference of the people.
From The Nameless Castle by Mór Jókai
Frederick calculated at more than eight hundred thousand men the losses caused to the belligerents by this obstinate and resultless struggle, the fruit of wicked ambition or culpable weaknesses on the part of governments.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Robert Black
There was a spasm of excitement in Congress, but it was brief and resultless.
From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by George Spring Merriam
"I will see Wilson myself in the morning," said Miss Arnott, when Evans's researches proved resultless.
From Miss Arnott's Marriage by Richard Marsh
The attempted combination of Platonism and Judaism by Philo was equally resultless.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Morris Jastrow
