bootlessly

Aside: Spent ages hunting, fruitlessly — or bootlessly, if you prefer — for this on YouTube after a pal old us about it.

Archive 2007-04-01 2007

One should never greet a mystery guest bootlessly.

Sweetblood Pete Hautman 2003

For those who bootlessly disgrace the name of philosophy are convicted of knowing nothing at all, as they are themselves forced, though unwillingly, to confess, since not only do they disagree with each other, but also expressed their own opinions sometimes in one way, sometimes in another.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

He intended to unlimber the part of him which had longed so bootlessly for Her Nibs these last three weeks and use it to hose down their dead faces.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

The Mandáyas, enraged at the loss of their property bootlessly bestowed on the priest, threatened to make an attack upon the people of the Agúsan.

The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

Colina, alternately cajoling and commanding, pursued him bootlessly.

The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest Hulbert Footner 1911

Ross Wilbur, hunted for and bootlessly traced from Buenos Ayres in the south to the Aleutian Islands in the north.

Moran of the Lady Letty Frank Norris 1886

One is apt to imagine so, in considering the history of that royal race, in whose behalf so much fidelity, so much valor, so much blood were desperately and bootlessly expended.

The History of Henry Esmond 1852

One is apt to imagine so, in considering the history of that royal race, in whose behalf so much fidelity, so much valor, so much blood were desperately and bootlessly expended.

The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

"I would never be able to find Italy on a map," said Luigi bootlessly.

Emdashes 2009