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Значения термина vain resistance на английском

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Использование термина vain resistance на английском
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The country had always offered a vain resistance; the Parliament of protestants against Spain.
Milton
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After a vain resistance, he abandoned the city to its fate, and fled no one knew whither.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2
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After some while spent in vain resistance, Bracciano submitted, and sent Vittoria back to her father's house.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
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After a vain resistance on the part of Milo's friends, the proposal was carried, Pompey threatening to use force if necessary.
Roman life in the days of Cicero
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No harm shall come to you-donot be afraid!-onlykindness is intended; therefore I beseech you do not persist in vain resistance.
Captain Fracasse
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Yet now, impassively and ignominiously, he was surrendering them to the conqueror, supinely, meanly, without even the solace of some supreme if vain resistance!
Phantom Wires: A Novel
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It was the work of one brutal moment to land the beautiful girl on the rock; she was too proud to offer a vain resistance.
Peter Pan
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There was a noise and spinning in my brain, a vain resistance to a dark green curtain that was falling, falling, falling, fold upon fold.
In the Days of the Comet
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Self-preservation, therefore, the rule of nature, seems to be the best rule of conduct; what good can we do by vain resistance, by useless efforts?
Letters from an American Farmer
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