Use "bootless" in a sentence

1. "Well!" said that good-natured emissary, after a full half-hour of bootless attempts to bring him round to the question

2. And then the starving, bootless, ragged, stupid wretches fell down and worshipped the System, and offered up their children as living sacrifices upon its altars, saying:

3. The cry brought him skulking back to his master and a blunt bootless kick sent him unscathed across a spit of sand, crouched in flight

4. And his bootless foot is lasting lame;

5. Makes speed to catch the tiger- bootless speed,