Example Sentences

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When the mining first began, several rebels toward the East had tried profitlessly to buck this irrefragable game and had found they had battered their unyielding heads against an equally unyielding stone wall.

From Dust by Haldeman-Julius, Marcet

In fact, I've been spending my labour profitlessly ever since I came into the country.

From Delilah of the Snows by Bindloss, Harold

Such things are seen large by these young people, but as they have neither organs, nor arteries, nor brains, nor membranes, dissection and inspection will be alike profitlessly practised.

From The Egoist by Meredith, George

The next day you left the city and I remained, the wasted and wasting monument of pas sions which had been as profitlessly as they were criminally exercised.

From Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story by Simms, William Gilmore