vainness

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"Oh dear!" exclaimed Ariadne, feeling the vainness of her wish to fly from the god.

From Phineas Redux by Trollope, Anthony

It was as though the love letter of Juliet had led her here to show her as in a glass darkly the vainness of love in the vainness of life.

From The Ghost Girl by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)

His was a curious temperament, and this sentimentality, born of vainness and idle hours, by no means expressed it all.

From Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch by Haggard, Henry Rider

What is a life in vainness spent, That will not bear the common test, When, laid to rest In earth's cold breast, We sleep at last, insentient?

From The Call of the Mountains and other Poems by Pickering, James E.

O the vainness, and the frailties, and the foolishness of men!

From The Book of Mormon by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints