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fruitlessly
1. There is an ugly moment while I scour around fruitlessly for a way to smooth over my faux pas
2. Fruitlessly, she battered at the stronger woman with her hands, but this only served to fuel Sheila’s lust
3. wandered the woods searching fruitlessly for a good hour
4. furrowing his brow trying fruitlessly to search his memory
5. For this reason, we must learn and grow from our suffering – to recognize karmic causes, rather than suffer fruitlessly and in vain
6. She was holding up her staff and glowing brightly while the specter fought fruitlessly against her
7. My eyebrows burrowed in interest as Ishvara fruitlessly attempted to regain his composure, looking down, covering his eyes with his hand the way mortals shield their retinas from the blazing sun
8. on the outskirts of the town, boasting a few thousand books only, most of which were unread, if discounting those she read herself during her all too many hours of waiting fruitlessly for customers
9. Another thing I had fruitlessly counted on was our house, and
10. Monte Carlo has no handy beach, but we visited the Royal Palace and waved to where we imagined Princess Grace was sipping tea, before wandering the steep streets and shoving a few franks fruitlessly into fruit machines in the magnificent entrance loggia of the fabled casino, which boasts what surely must be the most luxuriously appointed toilet on the planet
11. Fruitlessly I attempted to heave off the moist, flabby object before realising it was the Yank – naked and snorting with the effort of holding me still while thrusting his erection against my belly
12. He pushed against it fruitlessly, and his sword-point sought vainly for a crack
13. Blast your own gaze by looking at—" He stopped short, his mouth gaping, his finger pointing fruitlessly
14. Except for the two men backing Nancy, the others present looked on with stunned disbelief as George fruitlessly tried to advance
15. Kandras switched on the scanner and the voyage continued fruitlessly
16. But Al’lah the Almighty does not allow Satan to reach the deserving ones with his whispers and false visions haphazardly and fruitlessly, without letting them profit from this victimization: nay, what happens is merely treatment and cure for those whose ailments and guilt have intensified
17. But many thought, and I thought so too, that it was special favour and mercy which Heaven showed to Spain in permitting the destruction of that source and hiding place of mischief, that devourer, sponge, and moth of countless money, fruitlessly wasted there to no other purpose save preserving the memory of its capture by the invincible Charles V; as if to make that eternal, as it is and will be, these stones were needed to support it
18. For the last five years she’d been searching fruitlessly for meaning in a drunken nasty act of infidelity, and there was no meaning
19. Caderousse, then, was, as usual, at his place of observation before the door, his eyes glancing listlessly from a piece of closely shaven grass—on which some fowls were industriously, though fruitlessly, endeavoring to turn up some grain or insect suited to their palate—to the deserted road, which led away to the north and south, when he was aroused by the shrill voice of his wife, and grumbling to himself as he went, he mounted to her chamber, first taking care, however, to set the entrance door wide open, as an invitation to any chance traveller who might be passing
20. ‘I’m beginning to be weary of fruitlessly championing the truth, and sometimes I’m quite unhinged by it
21. Was it right, even to soothe his grief—would it be possible, even if she promised—to work as in a treadmill fruitlessly?
22. WHEN THE TIME CAME for the next Costume Ridotto at The King’s Theatre, I was near recover’d of my Strength, tho’ the Condition of my Spirits was, to say the Truth, not much better than upon the Day I sought, all fruitlessly, to run away
23. Doubt not my Loyalty, for I was lockt in my Chamber when Littlehat came to fetch me and I shouted to him all fruitlessly
24. He said that he was wearing away his time fruitlessly where he was, that letters from the friends he had formed in London desired his return to complete the negotiation they had entered into for his Indian enterprise
