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Meanings of bootless in English

Unproductive of success.

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Usage of bootless in English
1
But the son of Saturn afflicts me with bootless wranglings and strife.
The Iliad
2
The old Squire never learned of Halstead's bootless experiment in forced feeding.
A Busy Year at the Old Squire's
3
Buddhism was an after-thought, only reached after six years of bootless asceticism.
Oriental Religions and Christianity / A Course of Lectures Deliv...
4
Mr. Thomas Marvel stood bootless and amazed, his jacket nearly thrown off.
The Invisible Man
5
Then came a sound as of bootless feet pressing the stairs stealthily!
The Freelands
6
A week ago such an act would have been bootless utopianism.
The Guardian
7
The cold iron stirrups froze and cut the hunter's bootless feet.
The Last of the Plainsmen
8
To walk gloveless and bootless and need sunblock on my face.
206 Bones
9
Dad was in the lead, and poor Joe, bare-shinned and bootless, in the rear.
On Our Selection
10
The answer proved, like all the others, unsatisfactory and bootless.
The Bravo: A Tale
11
The oath he swore was bootless, but it made Dolon more keen on going.
The Iliad
12
And he recalled his own bootless wickedness and underhand intrigues.
The Fortune of the Rougons
13
It was bootless, showing feet that were quite human except for the talon-like toenails.
The Long War
14
Yes, bootless was it to have expected anything from such a source as that.
Through Russia
15
You said my father had gone on a bootless errand.
The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance
16
Atlanta's struggle against the restless Sherman has been only wasted valor, a bootless sacrifice.
The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance
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