Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yung had reached the skins; he laid his hand on them. They divided, and he saw behind them the bower of Tue Swe. In an instant he felt that hope of escape was vain, he turned and faced the enemy, he spoke. "No," he replied...
...stretch across one foot to it while the other is still engaged in "rastling" with the first log. Now how to get the second foot over? You are fearful of slipping. Yet the new support seems to maintain its composure and sobriety. You can surely count upon it. Vain hope! These two are but confederates in crime. For suddenly this, too, begins to rotate. You struggle for a moment to keep both feet moving in opposite directions, become demoralized, lose your head and your foothold, and plunge into the water, while your torturers indulge in a mighty flop of intense...
...bright thought crossed his mind. He would wear the clothing he had taken off the night before. Vain hope! The janitor had removed it, and all the rest was in the college locker in charge of the Faculty! Oh, horrible! Cold perspiration stood upon his brow as he paced the floor. Was he to miss chapel? What would his grandmother say when he broke the awful truth to her? Should he be obliged to shake the confiding trust of his dear teachers, and be for ever condemned in their eyes as a wicked chapel-cutter? He sickened at the thought...
...rumored that the Record has offered Smintheus a position on its editorial board, in the vain hope of making that paper readable...
...laughter outside did not abate; I wondered if the occupants of the other rooms did not hear it. Suddenly it ceased, and there was a knock at the door. That knock broke sharply across my nerves; I felt a horrible sensation of ghostly terror which I tried in vain to repress. I did not rise; I motioned to Steve to answer the summons. He smiles quietly, - even contemptuously, I thought, - and opened the door. There was no living person in sight. But that mocking laugh broke out again...