promiseless

From the doorway of the lonely station Banneker stared out over leagues of sand and cactus, arid, sterile, hopeless, promiseless.

Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

Day after day we toiled, and climbed and searched, and we younger partners grew sicker and still sicker of the promiseless toil.

Roughing It, Part 3. Mark Twain 1872

Day after day we toiled, and climbed and searched, and we younger partners grew sicker and still sicker of the promiseless toil.

Roughing It Mark Twain 1872

Day after day we toiled, and climbed and searched, and we younger partners grew sicker and still sicker of the promiseless toil.

Roughing It 1871

Lastly, In a word; the holiness that Adam had before, and that we lost in him by the fall; it was a natural shadowish old covenant, promiseless holiness; such as stood and might be walked in, while he stood perfectly ignorant of the Mediator Christ.

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

Therefore it was not his great errand when he came from heaven to earth, to put us in possession of that promiseless holiness that Adam had before, and that was lost in him by the fall.

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

Wherefore, in one word, you are as short by this chapter to prove your natural old covenant, promiseless, figurative holiness, to be here designed, as if you had said so much as amounts to nothing.

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

The reason of this your presumptuous exclamation, and condemnation of these things; is because they stand in the way of promoting your ignorant, tottering, promiseless, and gospelless holiness; they stand in the way of old Adam, they stand in the way of your dunghill rebellious righteousness, they stand in the way of your freedom of will, and a great rabble more of such like pretended virtues.

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

Wherefore the song which there you learnt of the devil, is true, in the sense he made it, and in the sense for which you bring it; which is, to beget in men, the highest esteem of their own human nature; and to set up this natural, shadowish, promiseless, ignorant holiness, in opposition to that which is truly Christ's.

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658