Garth offered him, and returning it, which he could easily do by giving up all futile money-spending, since he had a superfluous stock of clothes, and no expense in his board.
Casaubon, and Lydgate, who had some contempt at hand for futile scholarship, felt a little amusement mingling with his pity.
Valancy spent the night huddled on the rug before the fire, her face buried in her hands, when she was not vainly peering from the oriel in a futile effort to see through the furious smoke of wind and snow that had once been blue-dimpled Mistawis.
Life was no longer empty and futile, and death could cheat her of nothing.
She would lapse back to Doss Stirling again and for her few remaining days or weeks be the cowed, futile creature she had always been.
Valancy had said nothing, of course; but she wondered to herself if Roaring Abel's periodical sprees were not his futile protest against the poverty and drudgery and monotony of his existence.
The stronger the will, the more futile the task.
So much of what we do today is frivolous and futile and soon forgotten.
We must now imagine a world in which happiness and satisfaction with one's life and work replaces the futile quest to always earn more.
His insight was that where it was futile to try to specify what should happen, it was important to write down who had the right to decide when both parties to a contract could not agree.
Mr Schluetermann said hostel staff made futile calls to various consulates, hoping to identify the tourist.
Trying to please other people is largely a futile activity.
Yet all these are but means, and unless we can learn to shape and to control them to ends that are constructive for the inhabitants of the earth, material miracles become not only futile but worse; worse, because they provide more means of destruction.
Trying to please other people is largely a futile activity.
Soaked and exhausted, his frantic ettorts seemed futile .
We must now imagine a world in which happiness and satisfaction with one's life and work replaces the futile quest to always earn more.
Trying to please other people is largely a futile activity.
And even this, were it by some miracle possible, would be futile, for the new chemicals come from our laboratories in an endless stream; almost five hundred annually find their way into actual use in the United States alone.
Be More Mindful The past can never be changed and worry about the future is futile; complaining about either is a pointless exercise.
Nothing is more futile and more self-defeating than the bitterness of spurned love, the vengeful feeling that someone else has "come between" oneself and a beloved.
