"Futilely" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... breathing. I was as steady and cool as I ever had been upon a target-range, and I had the full consciousness of a perfect hit in anticipation; I knew that I could not miss. And then, as the bear surged forward toward me, the hammer fell—futilely, ...
— The People that Time Forgot • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... He ran to where the members of the department to which he belonged were futilely passing buckets ...
— The Young Firemen of Lakeville - or, Herbert Dare's Pluck • Frank V. Webster |
