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Joe fumbled in his pocket and brought out the yellow sheet. "I'd like to introduce my crew," said Joe. "This is Haney, and Chief Bender, and Mike Scandia." He waved his hand, and his whole body wobbled unexpectedly. "We'll know each other!" said Sanford sardonically. "Our first job is more futility to get the guided missiles you've brought us into the launching tubes. A lot of good they'll do!"
We have both seen the futility of love, however strong and pure it may be. I have hoped, your excellency, and always shall." "She has confessed her love to you privately?" asked Halfont. "Against her will, against her judgment, sir." "Then the worst has come to pass," groaned the old Count. Neither spoke for some time.
She'll let me come. What did you say you were going to have for dinner?" "Roast beef," replied Anderson. "Goody!" cried the boy, and was off. Anderson, left alone, sat down and thought disturbedly. The utter futility of any efforts to assist such a family was undeniable. Nothing could be done.
Preston, "the futility of trying to improve women by reason. Now a man " "Oh, pooh, reason! reason!" exclaimed Mrs. Lenox, turning upon him, "I'm sorry for you poor men, you mistaken servants of boasted reason! Reason is the biggest fallacy on earth. It leads men by the straight path of logic to pure foolishness." "And how is your woman's reason to account for that?" he asked tolerantly.
The other man the monster with the black skull cap had been responsible for the conduct of the European enterprises." "Throughout this interview," interrupted Stuart, forgetful of the fact that Miska had warned him of the futility of asking questions, "and during others which you must have had with Fo-Hi, did you never obtain a glimpse of his face?" "Never! No one has ever seen his face!
He rebels against that high God of the stars and crystals and poisons and monsters and of the dead emptiness of space.... The Manicheans and the Persians made out our God to be fighting eternally against that Being of silence and darkness beyond the stars. The Buddhists made the Lord Buddha the leader of men out of the futility and confusion of material existence to the great peace beyond.
He was kicked off the poop, and his arm, as a consequence, needed resetting. Johnson had been aloft, but there was murder in his dark eyes when he came down at supper-time. Yet he knew its futility, and while bandaging the broken arm earnestly explained, as Breen's groans would allow, that if he killed one the other two would kill him, and nothing would be gained.
Was that the reason for those broken cuticles, those swollen fingertips and brittle nails? It was a thousand pities. Knowing, as she spoke, the futility, the obviousness of the lie, yet somehow unable to help speaking it, Marie answered in abrupt confusion. Yes, she had been gardening; it it was a favourite hobby nowadays; all her friends....
Doubtless, realizing the futility of her efforts, and at the same time not wishing one of the opposite sex to witness her defeat, she preferred to disguise her anger and gave the impression of a quiet, frivolous gambol, for she whinnied softly and stared, with ears pricked and head erect, in a haughty look of inquiry at the more cumbersome figure of the bay.
Major Taliaferro has recorded one of the orations which he delivered to his listening wards. He referred to the presence of the Great Spirit, told of his long service among them, eulogized their departed elders "the old branches which have fallen from the Trunk of the old oak of your Nation" and then inserted a few wise admonitions as to the futility of their wars with the Chippewas.
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