Example Sentences

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The bishop could throw no light on the missing article, and this call ended the successless tour of investigation.

From Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley by Maniates, Belle Kanaris

What deeply interesting scenes crowd upon my remembrance, of his noble, his daring, but successless exertions!

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Burney, Fanny

CIX Then summon'd were the warriors that came on Etzel's part; They sought a farewell audience ere they should home depart, Successful or successless, as it might chance to fall.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

Trials of love too dear the making cost; For if successless, the whole venture's lost.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir

Notes to dull books, and prologues to dull plays; Not that my quill to critics was confined, My verse gave ampler lessons to mankind; So gravest precepts may successless prove.

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by Gilfillan, George