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Meanings of vain endeavour in English

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Usage of vain endeavour in English
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Fatal mistakes in the vain endeavour to retrieve a sinking cause ensued.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume III.
2
In a vain endeavour to regain her confidence, she falteringly remarked.
Dark Hollow
3
This is life, after all, and the rest is madness, vanity and vain endeavour.
Youth and Egolatry
4
Desist, therefore, from this vain endeavour without any delay.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13...
5
She screwed her head over her shoulder in a vain endeavour to see her own back.
Nightfall
6
Then Gresson advanced to the edge of the platform in a vain endeavour to retrieve the day.
Mr. Standfast
7
Willy, for the same reason, was skipping here and there, in a vain endeavour to avoid them.
The Voyages of the "Ranger" and "Crusader" / And what befell the...
8
Pulling out his handkerchief in a vain endeavour to conceal his shaven crown, he uttered a groan.
The Three Admirals
9
I had no fear, only a great pity-pityfor lost romance, for vain endeavour, for fruitless courage.
Prester John
10
Angered beyond control at the memory, West swore, straining fiercely in the vain endeavour to release his arms.
The Case and the Girl
11
Again a vain endeavour to speak.
Thyrza
12
Against his will, and wearied out with the vain endeavour to escape, he must face the pursuing Love at last.
Among Famous Books
13
On this there followed a romantic colloquy, all poetry and passion, such as I should in vain endeavour to reproduce.
In a glass darkly
14
My affections are wounded; it is impossible to heal them:-ceasethen the vain endeavour, if indeed that way your endeavours tend.
The Last Man
15
In March the dreaded illness returned, and the rest of his short life was spent in the vain endeavour to recover his health.
The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century
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But the exultation soon died from his face, for the horse still tossed his head in the vain endeavour to reach the water.
Sowing Seeds in Danny
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