75 examples of profitless in sentences

I hear you have been paying rents and redeeming furniture,that's an expensive game, and a very profitless one.

You have also been told that slang constantly changes, so that one's accumulations of it today will be a profitless clutter tomorrow.

It was Pastor Drury who suggested the explanation for all these forms of profitless and often dangerous amusement.

Being disappointed in his hopes of profit, he shuffled out of the concern as meanly as any higgler could have done who had found himself in a profitless business with a disreputable partner.

Her one desire now, if it amounted to a desire, when all ways in life seemed to her alike flat and profitless, was to find her way somehow or other back to America, and to carry the bad news herself to the little farmhouse in the valley.

And all this is in a country so desolated by centuries of war that in spite of obvious natural fertility it is a sullen treeless deserta desert of blight and thistles, as profitless to our men as their periodically deferred anticipations of a grand advance.

Philip, although he was superior to each one of his opponents and repelled their attacks on all sides with energy and personal valour, yet consumed his time and strength in that profitless defensive.

My errand in Sanford was to see something of the river in its narrower and better part; and having done that, I did not regret what otherwise might have seemed a profitless week.

It was a profitless business sitting there alone in the mill, listening to the fall the whole night through.

Many people are deterred from keeping dogs by the belief that the hobby is expensive and that it entails a profitless amount of trouble and anxiety; but to the true dog-lover the anxiety and trouble are far outbalanced by the pleasures of possession, and as to the expense, that is a matter which can be regulated at will.

with profitless endeavour Have I pursued thee, many a weary hour; 90 But thou nor swell'st the victor's strain, nor ever Didst breathe thy soul in forms of human power.

But othersthose who admire the genius which enables a man to make unproductive land productive, who hail as benefactor one who supplants a profitless oak of a thousand years' standing with a thriving butcher-shopthese people understood what was being done for Dumfries Corners, but wondered how the venture was to be made profitable.

Many weeks had now, according to their method of calculation, been entirely lost in the visionary and profitless plans of their chief.

We got rid of our talkative friend with the promise that we would "think of it;" and indeed, we did think, that Mr., who was a very respectable house-agent, ought to ascertain what sort of places were place in his hands before he sent people on such profitless journeys.

The systematic and steady way in which they advanced before the bear, and retired, right and left, leading her into a profitless pursuit, was very interesting to witness.

From one of those profitless tramps he was returning one evening when he observed the word "parsonage" on a door plate.

This, perhaps, is profitless; but I am glad to find that thought on this point always tends to confirm what I believe is the true scriptural doctrine in opposition to Calvinism.

* * * It is a new experience to me to lie here so long; but, now that I am much better, and what pain I have is transient and easy to be borne for the most part, it is my own fault if the days are profitless.

But the many fellow-beings I met upon my road were as profitless as my companions in the coach.

Your prayer towards the sky was barren and profitless, but prayer towards the earth, work, will give full satisfaction to your soul.'

It is profitless to pursue the subject further.

After a few years of this profitless drudgery, my father bought an old run-down farm with dilapidated buildings in the neighboring town of R, mortgaging all, and our souls and bodies besides, for its payment.

It was frightful to think of a man's brain being stocked with such inexpressibly profitless treasures.

Young as I then was in the profession, no marvel that I felt oppressed by the weight of the responsibility cast upon me; or that, when wearied with thinking, and dizzy with profitless conjecture, I threw myself into bed, perplexing images and shapes of guilt and terror pursued me through my troubled sleep!

They showed on coming into power a laudable anxiety to put an end to the profitless effusion of human blood, and they wisely saw that it would be of more profit to their country to convert the new nation into friends by the free grant of terms which sooner or later must have been yielded than to widen the breach of kindred ties by an irritating delay.

75 examples of  profitless  in sentences