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Definition of Bootlessly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bootlessly
Literary usage of Bootlessly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermonsby Charles Haddon Spurgeon by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1872)
"/о This is the firm of Willcox & Gibbs, About whom jealous rivals told, bootlessly,
fi'bs, And who rescued the Women of England, &c. IX. ..."
2. The Puritans: Or, The Church, Court, and Parliament of England, During the by Samuel Hopkins (1860)
"The Archbishop's chaplain and others bootlessly " travailed with them " for their
conversion; but the hankering zeal of the judges could not brook delay. ..."
3. English Hunger and Industrial Disorders: A Study of Social Conflict During by Walter James Shelton (1922)
"... moved like mockers' beards, Though only boughs were they, And I seemed to go ;
yet still was there, And am, and there haunt we Thus bootlessly. ..."
4. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"... in considering the history of that royal race, in whose behalf so much fidelity,
so much valour, so much blood were desperately and bootlessly expended. ..."
5. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1850)
"... meanly, mendaciously P The Crown lawyers, pray, why allow in the way Of the
County Courts Bill to stand bootlessly ? ..."
6. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1885)
"For those who bootlessly disgrace the name of philosophy are convicted of knowing
nothing at all, as they are themselves forced, though unwillingly, ..."
7. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen (1898)
"... in considering the history of that royal race, in whose behalf so much fidelity,
so much valour, so much blood were desperately and bootlessly expended. ..."
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