... In bitterness, in rage, and in humiliation—a thing almost unknown to him—did he realize it, and the realization steeled his purpose for all that he perceived its futility... 
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...It didn’t console methat the futility of it all was not my blame...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
... and toexpose the futility of the measures hitherto employed to arrest thescourge?...
Honoré Bourguignon 「On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment」
... abroad now which condemns cock-fighting, and to continue selecting and breeding cocks solely for their game-points seems a mere futility...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds in Town and Village」
...If, however,it tries to set up on its own account, it is in danger of degeneratinginto sheer futility...
Robert Marett 「Anthropology」
...The excursion up the Kapare was a further illustration,if one had been needed, of the futility of undertakingan expedition in that country without a steamlaunch or motor-boat...
A. F. R. Wollaston 「Pygmies and Papuans」
...One of the men took the infant from her, and their speed soon convinced us of the futility of pursuit; the woman, however, did not run so fast...
Joseph Noad 「Lecture On The Aborigines Of Newfoundland」
..."There you may come to your senses andrealize the futility of trying to cover up your crime—if you havecommitted one...
Various 「Astounding Stories, April, 1931」
...) the futility of an arrangement bywhich the pyramid was only to subserve its purpose when it had lost thatperfection of shape on which its entire significance depended, accordingto the theory itself...
Richard A. Proctor 「Myths and Marvels of Astronomy」
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