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Updated: May 19, 2025
All that you have read of faithlessness and perfidy will seem tame to you when compared with that conduct which you are doomed to meet from me. We must part, and for ever. We have seen each other for the last time. It is bootless even to ask the cause. Believe that I am fickle, false, heartless, that a whim has changed me, if you will. My resolve is unalterable. We meet no more even as friends.
quoted Bertie, jestingly. Cecil disliked his manner, and felt irritated; but there she was, imprisoned, bootless, in her chair, while those appendages smoked damply in the fender. "Dear me," she said, impatiently, "will that wind never drop! When shall we be able to start, I wonder?" "Don't you think we are more comfortable here?" said he, lazily.
After high aspirations, after renewed endeavours, after bootless toil, after long wanderings, after hope, effort, weariness, failure, painfully alternating and recurring, it is an immense relief to the exhausted mind to be able to say, "At length I know that I can know nothing about anything." ... Ignorance remains the evil which it ever was, but something of the peace of certitude is gained in knowing the worst, and in having reconciled the mind to the endurance of it. Precisely, and what one would say of our own age is that it will not deliberately face this knowledge of the worst.
I may be wrong, for I am ill-versed in religious matters, but my conception of God and scapegoat be not that they are synonymous." "Religion, my son, be a bootless subject for argument between friends," replied the priest, "and further, there be that nearer my heart just now which I would ask thee. I may offend, but thou know I do not mean to.
An hour had certainly elapsed in this bootless wandering, when he entered a narrow lane in the quarter of Saint André and uttered a sudden cry of joy as he caught a glimpse of the object for which he was in search.
Puns are to me vulgar, and hence odious. I mean bootless in the proper sense of the word. Balancing myself on the marge or verge of the billiard table for the tiled surface of the floor had imparted a sense of chill to my half-soled feet and already I was beginning to repress incipient sneezes I called aloud, and yet again I called. There was no response.
But one thing Hardy promised himself forgetting that it was the bootless oath of old Bill Johnson, who was crazy now and hiding in the hills he would kill the first sheep that set foot on Bronco Mesa, and the next, as long as he could shoot; and Jasp Swope might answer as he would.
After a few days of bootless striving with himself, during which time he had spent more hours with Katie than he had for a year before, it was such a comfort to him to see in her face the subtle likeness to Elspie, and to hear her talk about plans of bringing her to Charlottetown for a visit if nothing more, after a few days of this, Captain Donald, one Saturday afternoon, sailing past Orwell Head, suddenly ran into the inlet where he had taken the picnic party, and, mooring the "Heather Bell" at Spruce Wharf, announced to his astonished mate that he should lie by there till Monday.
"If I doubt whether I am better than my neighbour," Arthur continued, "if I concede that I am no better, I also doubt whether he is better than I. I see men who begin with ideas of universal reform, and who, before their beards are grown, propound their loud plans for the regeneration of mankind, give up their schemes after a few years of bootless talking and vainglorious attempts to lead their fellows; and after they have found that men will no longer bear them, as indeed they never were in the least worthy to be heard, sink quietly into the ranks-and-file, acknowledging their aims impracticable, or thankful that they were never put into practice.
We have had a most indulgent guard to-day, who, by suffering the servant to enter a few paces within the gate, afforded us an opportunity of hearing this agreeable intelligence; as also, by way of episode, that boots being wanted for the cavalry, all the boots in the town were last night put in requisition, and as Fleury was unluckily gone to bed before the search was made at his inn, he found himself this morning very unceremoniously left bootless.
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