"Futilely" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Barraclough; but what did resistance avail? The infamous Pierce, who had me on one side, twisted my arm in warning lest I should kick futilely against the pricks. ...
— Hurricane Island • H. B. Marriott Watson
... first and was not searched for. It was a full day after the Navajo Dam breakdown before anybody thought to have him check on the melted-down apparatus. It was two days before anybody was concerned about him, and three before flights out of Denver had been checked futilely ...
— Long Ago, Far Away • William Fitzgerald Jenkins AKA Murray Leinster
... of the copter threw the men outside into confused excitement. They ran about, aiming their short-range heat beams futilely up at the ...
— Rebels of the Red Planet • Charles Louis Fontenay
... was up there with a girl I'd known ever since I was a kid—we'd almost been brought up together. And the first thing I did was to go and skid down the side of a ravine." He puffed futilely at his cigarette. ...
— The Vision of Desire • Margaret Pedler
... later the Gila monster snapped its gaping jaws together on the fleshy edge of Lennon's palm. It whirled over upon its back. Caught outstretched and almost prone upon the ground, Lennon sought to wrench his hand free and draw away. The heavy lizard was dragged along with its crooked legs futilely clawing the air. But its powerful jaws remained clenched on the ...
— Bloom of Cactus • Robert Ames Bennet |
