"Unprofitableness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... — N. unproductiveness &c adj.; infertility, sterility, infecundity^; masturbation; impotence &c 158; unprofitableness &c (inutility) 645. waste, desert, Sahara, wild, wilderness, howling wilderness. V. be unproductive &c adj.; hang fire, flash in the pan, come to nothing. [make unproductive] sterilize, addle; disable, inactivate. Adj. unproductive, acarpous^, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... company so well that he would follow his friends to the very threshold, in the hope, as he once told Boswell, that they might perhaps return. When he was alone and undistracted, his melancholy came back upon him like a cloud. He tortured himself over the unprofitableness of his life, over his failure to achieve official prominence. He does not seem to have brooded over the favourite subject for Englishmen to lose heart over, namely, his financial position. It is a very significant ...
— Where No Fear Was - A Book About Fear • Arthur Christopher Benson
... practical usefulness of reservoirs to agriculture in the irrigated region of the United States, especially as affecting the distribution of water to crops, the area and value of reclaimed land, and the stability and unprofitableness of farming ...
— Messages and Papers of William McKinley V.2. • William McKinley
... hand, there is an annulling of the commandment that went before, on account of its weakness and unprofitableness,—(19)for the law perfected nothing,—and on the other the bringing in of a better hope, by which ...
— The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. • Various
... furniture was superior to anything that might be expected in a small wayside tavern. In truth, the landlord had expended a considerable sum in fitting up this, his finest chamber, and had therefore sufficient reason to bemoan its unprofitableness. ...
— A Stable for Nightmares - or Weird Tales • J. Sheridan Le Fanu |
