1 No one, however, appeared to profit by the opportunity; and after a half hour of fruitless waiting she rose and wandered on.
2 His search has always hitherto been fruitless, and he has sunk back, disheartened, into the sea.
3 Thence he went to the side of the motherly animal, and spending a minute in a fruitless inquiry into the character of her rider, he shook his head and returned to Heyward.
4 A desperate and fruitless struggle to recover the branch succeeded, and then the savage was seen for a fleeting instant, grasping wildly at the empty air.
5 Every effort, however, to detect the least evidence of the approach of their hidden enemies was as fruitless as the inquiry after his late companions.
6 Neither of the captives, however, submitted without a desperate, though fruitless, struggle.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11 7 But with the solitary and fruitless attempt made on the life of Chingachgook, the attack appeared to have terminated.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 19 8 Abandoning a species of inquiry that proved so fruitless, he retraced his steps to the council-lodge, resolved to seek and question David, in order to put an end to his doubts.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24 9 The scout heard them attentively, but impatiently, and finally closed the discussion, by answering, in a tone that instantly silenced Alice, while it told Heyward how fruitless any further remonstrances would be.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 25 10 Without exhausting himself with fruitless efforts, the cunning Magua suffered his body to drop to the length of his arms, and found a fragment for his feet to rest on.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32 11 "Now, I say, Tom, be fair about this yer," he said, when, after a fruitless search, he came where Tom was standing.
12 At last, after two or three hours' fruitless search, he was thinking of turning back in despair, when casting his eyes upwards he saw a sight which sent a thrill of pleasure through his heart.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS 13 On the day following, Oliver and Mr. Maylie repaired to the market-town, in the hope of seeing or hearing something of the men there; but this effort was equally fruitless.
14 The word would not have been exchanged, but that the housebreaker was unable to open the door: on which he was expending fruitless oaths and violence, when the Jew came panting up.
15 He looked, wistfully, into their faces, one by one when they passed out, as though to see which way the greater number leant; but that was fruitless.