Significados de bootless errand en inglés

You said my father had gone on a bootless errand.

De Ruyter drew off with his convoy, and Sandwich returned from a bootless errand.

This magnificent reasoning was of course unanswerable; and the rebuked petitioner abandoned her bootless errand in despair.

He is come on a bootless errand!

Three days after this bootless errand, Lucien and Coralie were breakfasting in melancholy spirits beside the fire in their pretty bedroom.

But giving it up at last, for a bootless errand, they dropped farther and farther astern, until completely out of sight.

And again adopting a bantering tone, "I trust, fair lady, I shall not return this time from a bootless errand."

As he hesitated she went on half playfully: It seems hard that you had to come all the way here on such a bootless errand.

'I say,' said the cunning Jason, 'that they are come here on a bootless errand.

'Very good, sir; I need detain you no longer, but return whence I came from my bootless errand.

'As I have told you,' he said, 'I am fully convinced that our messenger has gone on a bootless errand.