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Ross Wilbur, hunted for and bootlessly traced from Buenos Ayres in the south to the Aleutian Islands in the north.

From Moran of the Lady Letty by Norris, Frank

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.

From The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Colina, alternately cajoling and commanding, pursued him bootlessly.

From The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest by Footner, Hulbert

One is apt to imagine so, 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.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George

He looked around eagerly, wildly almost, but bootlessly.

From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram