1
The country had always offered a vain resistance; the Parliament of protestants against Spain.
2
After a vain resistance, he abandoned the city to its fate, and fled no one knew whither.
3
After some while spent in vain resistance, Bracciano submitted, and sent Vittoria back to her father's house.
4
After a vain resistance on the part of Milo's friends, the proposal was carried, Pompey threatening to use force if necessary.
5
No harm shall come to you-donot be afraid!-onlykindness is intended; therefore I beseech you do not persist in vain resistance.
6
Yet now, impassively and ignominiously, he was surrendering them to the conqueror, supinely, meanly, without even the solace of some supreme if vain resistance!
7
It was the work of one brutal moment to land the beautiful girl on the rock; she was too proud to offer a vain resistance.
8
There was a noise and spinning in my brain, a vain resistance to a dark green curtain that was falling, falling, falling, fold upon fold.
9
Self-preservation, therefore, the rule of nature, seems to be the best rule of conduct; what good can we do by vain resistance, by useless efforts?