33 Verbs to Use for the Word vain

And yet again he waited in vain.

The womanthe first woman, I meangoes crazy down to the extremity of her feet, and dies, and then there are more women,no; these last are disembodied spirits, with nothing but light skirts on,who dance in graveyards, and make young men dance with them till they fall down exhausted, calling in vain for BROWN to take them home in carriages, and pay for their torn gloves.

How many steps have I taken in vain!

So round the heart strong fibres strain, That it attempts to beat in vain? Does palsy on your feelings hang, Deaden'd by some severer pang?

Talk to me no more about your things of the other world; for you will preach in vain.

Paid by the parish for attendance here, He wears contempt upon his sapient sneer; In haste he seeks the bed where misery lies, Impatience marked in his averted eyes; And, some habitual queries hurried o'er, Without reply he rushes on the door: His drooping patient, long inured to pain, And long unheeded, knows remonstrance vain; He ceases now the feeble help to crave Of man; and silent sinks into the grave.

A little beyond Frankfort there is about a mile of State road, laid evidently to furnish inhabitants an object lesson,and laid in vain.

The result might well have been, however, that the great talker would have been reduced to silenceone of those brilliant flashes of silence for which Sydney Smith longed, but longed in vain.

A common valet lay under the hallowed stones of the Abbey, and Europe had mourned in vain!

XVI IMPRISONED MUSIC Oh, had I but the poet's voice to sing, Then would the music prisoned in my heart (Panting in vain its message to impart)

Tuneful Alexis on the Thames' fair side, The Ladies play-thing, and the Muses pride, With merit popular, with wit polite, Easy tho' vain, and elegant tho' light: Desiring, and deserving other's praise, Poorly accepts a fame he ne'er repays: Unborn to cherish, SNEAKINGLY APPROVES, And wants the soul to spread the worth he loves.

from whence the flight Of baffled foes was watched along the plain: But peace destroyed what war could never blight, And laid those proud roofs bare to summer's rain, On which the iron shower for years had poured in vain.

In vain Mâtâ stormed and ravedin vain Arthur remonstrated.

Pardon its length: it is my first, and shall be my last, heart-outpouring to you; and if it make you comprehend me, I shall not have written or you have read in vain.

[Fr.]; put oneself forward; fish for compliments; give oneself airs &c (assume) 885; boast &c 884. render vain &c adj.; inspire with vanity &c n.; inflate, puff up, turn up, turn one's head.

"I should suppose that it would lead you to disregard the bell when it rings, and that consequently a gentleman or lady might sometimes ring in vain, the scholars near the door saying, 'Oh, it is only the little girls.'

They hate the sensual, and scorn the vain, The parasite their influence never warms, Nor him whose sordid soul the love of gold alarms.

Saying this, he went into the fountain, and vanished! And not a trace was left behind, And not a dimple on the wave; All sought, but sought in vain, to find The spot which proved Kai-khosráu's grave!

Some labourer, thought he, may perchance be near; And so he sent a feeble shoutin vain; No voice made answer, he could only hear Winds rustling over plots of unripe grain, 35 Or whistling thro' thin grass along the unfurrowed plain.

God's word is given That none shall sow in vain, But find his ripened grain Garnered in heaven.

Another pull, and another, straining every nervein vain.

But 'tis not mine, the soaring joy of Song: I strive to voice my soul, but strive in vain.

Men but now Have taken Cassandra, and I strove in vain.

Chapter X. "The shadow from thy brow shall melt, The sorrow from thy strain; But where thy earthly smile hath dwelt, Our hearts shall thirst in vain.

And, like the timid lambs that crowd with bleatings in the fold, When they advancing to their throats the furious wolf behold, The lovely Moorish maidens, with wet but flashing eyes, Are crowded in a public square and fill the air with cries; And tho', like tender women, 'tis vain for them to arm, Yet loudly they re-echo the words of the alarm.

33 Verbs to Use for the Word  vain