Significados de fruitless quest em inglês

She turned back from her fruitless quest, with a heartsinking sense of disappointment.

Then he told the long story of his fruitless quest.

Half an hour later the four chums turned wearily away from another fruitless quest.

His long, black eyes went searching everywhere while he reported a fruitless quest for the spring.

Once she'd left the lawyer she'd walked for hours, more of her fruitless quest for employment.

The only course open to her was to accompany her friend whithersoever the fruitless quest should lead.

This man, returning from his fruitless quest at the station, had witnessed the capture of his companions.

Mahomet did not follow them up, as nothing was to be gained from such a fruitless quest.

At least he would return and see, before he continued what seemed to be a most fruitless quest.

On the way they met Miss Carter and Bob Strahan returning from a fruitless quest among the bird stores.

He went one afternoon to the great museum, and wandered through several of the rooms in fruitless quest of her.

For seven days I went on with my fruitless quest, and my misgivings increased until I was almost driven mad.

Rose liked Major Guthrie, and she was sorry she had missed him yesterday morning, when out on her fruitless quest for money.

That was two years ago, and his fruitless quest got him thinking and then propelled him into actually developing his own putting aid.

It was a fruitless quest; and at length the squire persuaded his master to abandon it and await the coming of the dawn.

Perhaps the proud and lonely figure on the screen was smiling sardonically at the scientists who were starting on their age-long, fruitless quest.