He had the air of one wearied by a profitless discussion.

Paul asked, after an instant's pause, breaking off the profitless discussion.

The session was mainly consumed in excited, profitless discussion.

There has arisen a profitless discussion as to which of these two phases came first.

This is a profitless discussion, sir.

But this was just the question which her father had suggested as an example of a subject of profitless discussion.

An almost endless and likely profitless discussion has been indulged in as to the proper way to guide a slide rest, and different opinions exist.

'I will only beg that there may be no further profitless discussion between us.

"We will talk of this all again some other time," he went on, tired of the profitless discussion.

"We 'ain't got no books," said he, in grim rebuke, as though to put an end to a profitless discussion.