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

One should never greet a mystery guest bootlessly.

Sweetblood

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

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

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

Colina, alternately cajoling and commanding, pursued him bootlessly.

The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest

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

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

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

Emdashes

If the reader will imagine each mark on the coat, of which “Nompy "bootlessly complains, done in different colors, he will have some idea of the infinite pains Field bestowed on the details of his epistolary pranks.

Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions