"Ineffectively" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and now released sufferer to sink into utter and useless distraction before the neglected promise was fulfilled. Will you make me some amends for the affectionate concern I suffered for the diminution of your glory in that business by expediting now a pension eagerly but ineffectively solicited by many great people, as I am told, for a most deserving woman, the widow of Mr. Green, the consul at Nice?... Deserve and receive a kind and constant remembrance in the benedictions of a recluse who has still the ambition to live in your regard by the good which he would ...
— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose
... Plougastel attempted to call out, but her voice refused its office. She attempted to throw open the door of her own carriage; but her fingers fumbled clumsily and ineffectively with the handle. And meanwhile the caleche was slowly passing, La Tour d'Azyr's fine eyes sombrely yet intently meeting her own anguished gaze. And then she saw something else. M. d'Ormesson, leaning back again from the ...
— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini
... these had long before been sacrificed to the armies ineffectively manoeuvring for the destruction of ...
— At a Winter's Fire • Bernard Edward J. Capes |
