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Lavinia only answered by compliance; but, after an half hour's useless contest with her riotous brother, returned to her weeping sister, not merely successless with regard to her petition, but loaded with fresh ill tidings that she knew not how to impart.

Camilla 2008

The politic nature of vice must be opposed by policy, and therefore wiser honesties project and plot against sin; wherein notwithstanding we are not to rest in generals, or the trite stratagems of art; that may succeed with one temper, which may prove successless with another.

Letter to a Friend 2007

Women often, for their own sakes, will keep the last secret; but will ostentatiously din the ears of gods and men with their clamours upon a successless offer.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

After nearly 15 years of successless searching for this record here in Germany, I found it today here in this blog...

The Demented Leftist Cabaret of Kollektiv Rote Rübe 2005

But as he was a surly kind of fellow, so she contented herself with frequently upbraiding him by disadvantageous comparisons with her first husband, whose praise she had in her mouth; and as she was for the most part mistress of the profit, so she was to take upon herself the care and government of the family, and, after a long successless struggle, to suffer her husband to be master of himself.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

Such was the successless armament of Xerxes described by Herodotus, or the successful expedition of

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

At length, fatigued with so successless an employment, he sought relief from change.

The History of the Caliph Vathek 2004

If it were love, it might be simple, single, successless love on her side alone.

Emma 2004

La Motte, however, being as much surprized as himself, and as ignorant of the route which Adeline had taken, he returned to the villa, impatient of intelligence, and found some of his servants arrived, without any news of Adeline, and those who came afterwards were as successless as the first.

The Romance of the Forest 2004

If it were love, it might be simple, single, successless love on her side alone.

Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001