Go to; why make this moan and bootless lamentation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Phoenissae] Reference

To plead your cause: it shall be therefore bootless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of King Henry the Eighth] Reference

Man looks at my bootless feet and asks if he woke me.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

But bootless is your sight: he will not speak To any.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pericles, Prince of Tyre] Reference

They knew 'twas bootless to be looking there for a booty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)] Reference

“We have been but bootless hunters,” said the townsmen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fair Maid of Perth] Reference

But there are certain bootless crimes, or rather sins, that imply.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference

But we knew, before the look, that the searching would be bootless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ship That Saw a Ghost] Reference

How the thing went from bad to worse, it would be bootless here to tell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phineas Redux] Reference

Mr. Thomas Marvel stood bootless and amazed, his jacket nearly thrown off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invisible Man] Reference

That was our own experience with a walking-stick which was absolutely bootless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 7, 1917] Reference

I did not ruffle my soul's serenity with dark forebodings and bootless queries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

The next thing Liam knew, a bootless Katie was tumbling headfirst into the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze]

By heavens it is pitiful, the bootless love of women for children in Vanity Fair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference

Buddhism was an after-thought, only reached after six years of bootless asceticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference

In the grey dawn two hatless and bootless young men came stumbling down into the laager.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Steyn and De Wet] Reference

A bootless voyage they were making, since the fair had been abruptly broken up at its outset.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Strogoff] Reference

The man went bootless that day, and he dug his toes at the dirt as if looking for a better hold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Mountain]

For what purpose a staircase was carried up to such a bootless termination we could not conjecture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

Goal setting and strategizing ways to create balance are pretty bootless without knowing the big picture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Losing Your Sense of Self Because of Your Business] Reference

'To think,' soliloquized Caper, 'to think of what a bootless thing it is, to shoe-black o'er an elephant!'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862] Reference

It were bootless to expatiate on the host of talent engaged in formidable phalanx to do fealty to the Bleater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contributions to All the Year Round] Reference

But the sacrifice was to be made, and she knew that it was bootless to waste her words further on Caroline Spalding.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Knew He Was Right] Reference

Speculation about the Fliers had been dismissed as bootless at the schola, until the Ayuntamiento had condemned them as spies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Calde of the Long Sun]

How it had come to pass that such friendship had sprung up or rather how it had been revived it would be bootless here to say.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Belton Estate] Reference

To enumerate all the cures effected by prayer would be as bootless as to rehearse all the miracles of therapeutics and surgery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference

"Nothing, so please you," answered the man; "and Philip here says that our search will be bootless, for that he is not in the house.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference

Paganel asked Glenarvan, however, to let him have the document again, on the faith of which they had set out on so bootless a search.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Castaways] Reference

Three days after this bootless errand, Lucien and Coralie were breakfasting in melancholy spirits beside the fire in their pretty bedroom.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris] Reference

In the meantime, that single, bootless, 27-minute raid cost the lives or freedom of as many young Americans as 10 months of combat in Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hell at Low Altitude] Reference