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If you make public employment the dump of the hopeless and prospectless, do not be surprised if they do the work they are supposed to do without taking any interest in it.

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If your life were as blank and prospectless as mine, you might have good reason indeed to sigh and complain.

Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense [pseud.] Vera

And Georgia, laughing -- Georgia was strongly addicted to laughing -- said if there was any man ready to hang upon her every word, that she, being twenty-seven and prospectless, must not let him get away.

The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love Susan Glaspell 1915

And Georgia, laughing -- Georgia was strongly addicted to laughing -- said if there was any man ready to hang upon her every word, that she, being twenty-seven and prospectless, must not let him get away.

The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love Susan Glaspell 1915

And Georgia, laughing -- Georgia was strongly addicted to laughing -- said if there was any man ready to hang upon her every word, that she, being twenty-seven and prospectless, must not let him get away.

The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love Susan Glaspell 1915

It was the lonesomeness, of course, Ruth reflected, and perhaps a vision of the dreary future, prospectless, hopeless, to be filled with the monotony of the past.

The Range Boss Charles Alden Seltzer 1908

And as though the strife here were not already hard enough, behold from many corners of the land come needy emigrants, prospectless among their own people, fearing the dark season which has so often meant for them the end of wages and of food, tempted hither by thought that in the shadow of palaces work and charity are both more plentiful.

The Nether World George Gissing 1880

Home Rulers will possibly enable the Irish and English to step together, it seems better worth the venture than to pursue a course of prospectless discord!

Complete Short Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

Thoughtful political minds regard the measure as a backward step; yet conceiving but a prospect that a measure accepted by Home Rulers will possibly enable the Irish and English to step together, it seems better worth the venture than to pursue a course of prospectless discord!

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

Home Rulers will possibly enable the Irish and English to step together, it seems better worth the venture than to pursue a course of prospectless discord!

Miscellaneous Prose George Meredith 1868