Example Sentences

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The son's course indicated rather profitlessness and recklessness than vice.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various

They are an illustration of the profitlessness of all crime.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Maclaren, Alexander