The lights seemed distant, seemed to struggle vainly against the night.

But men struggle vainly in the meshes of their destiny.

Where thousands of better and stronger men struggle vainly for fair recognition, he and his kind are glorified.

They struggle vainly against obstacles, but are carried away by the flood and are finally engulfed in the waters.

To be innocent and to struggle vainly against the very facts that accuse you, the very certainty that proclaims you guilty.

Like the rest of us, the Irishman clearly took no pleasure in watching a once great player struggle vainly to regain past glories.

Though we struggle , and know we are struggling , we take it for granted that there is nothing to do but struggle , and struggle vainly.

The wretches plunged into the waters, and struggled vainly against the current.

Then the river rose, and for days they struggled vainly against it.

Yet he struggled vainly against the longing for his dear old home.

He told me he had been struggling vainly for about an hour.

The raw earth of the trenches struggled vainly against the tide of germination.

For more than twenty years Spain struggled vainly with the West Indian problem.

I paced the deck undisturbed, struggling vainly to evolve some solution.

Breathless from effort, a mere child in their grip, Miss Donovan struggled vainly.

Marion, Sumter, and other Americans struggled vainly to equal his exploits.