unfruitful

• “Praise be to God, my life cannot be called unfruitful; but, compared with the wise Gotthard Lenz and his stout-hearted son Rudlieb, I look upon myself as an esquire who has perhaps been some few times to tourneys, and, besides that, has never hunted out his own forests.”

  Sintram and His Companions

• “This sin of all others may be termed the unfruitful work of darkness.”

  The Art of Divine Contentment: An Exposition of Philippians 4:11

• “The Blue Laws of Connecticut in 1650 denounced gambling because it fostered too much "unfruitful" time.”

  Forbes: Internet Gambling: No Mere Roll Of The Dice

• “Less forgivable is that Behe dismissed such research as 'unfruitful'.”

  The God Delusion

• “-- The most healthy classes have the most numerous families; but that, as luxury enervates society, it diminishes the population, by enfeebling parents, nature preferring none rather than those too weakly to live and be happy, and thereby rendering that union unfruitful which is too feeble to produce offspring sufficiently strong to enjoy life.”

  Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage

• “[Verse 8] Such lives are "not idle," they are active; they are not "unfruitful," they are efficient.”

  The Epistles of St. Peter

• “The only times I've ever tried have been unfruitful.”

  the diminishing description

• “After many unfruitful hunts waiting for a good buck, i decided it was time to get one in the freezer.”

  Field & Stream

• “If you were to get down on all fours and try to shake off water after a shower, your efforts would be most unfruitful.”

  NPR: Student Derives Formula For Optimum Dog Drying

• “I suspect that as a profession would be better off spending more time at the margin looking at ideas like Ormerod's, even if they ultimately prove unfruitful.”

  Paul Ormerod, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

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