"Ineffectively" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... aggressor by a well-aimed thrust. I despair of ever understanding how the assailant has acquired her talent for inflicting sudden death, when the assailed, who is better-armed and quite as strong, wields her dagger anyhow and therefore ineffectively. If the one has learnt by prolonged practice in attack, the other should also have learnt by prolonged practice in defence, for attack and defence possess a like merit in the fight for life. Among the ...
— More Hunting Wasps • J. Henri Fabre
... came to her and pulled the blankets from her. He stooped and unlaced her boots, pulling them off. One woolen stocking was jerked roughly from a foot as delicate as a babe's. She tried to kick, feebly and ineffectively. Her feet, half frozen from sleeping in the ...
— Louisiana Lou • William West Winter
... laugh. Colonel Swinger as ineffectively assumed a mock parental severity. "When you see two gentlemen, miss, discussin' politics together, it ain't behavin' like a lady to interrupt. Better run away and tidy yourself before ...
— Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... musketry fire upon us, besides giving them the advantage that the light was at their backs, while it shone in the faces of our marines with such dazzling effect that they were able to reply but ineffectively to the ...
— The Pirate Slaver - A Story of the West African Coast • Harry Collingwood
... Probably these had long before been sacrificed to the armies ineffectively manoeuvring for the destruction ...
— At a Winter's Fire • Bernard Edward J. Capes
... the strings once or twice gently and ineffectively, and then, his lips twitching, his eyelids as much closed as the scars on their lids allowed them to be, he began ...
— The Halo • Bettina von Hutten |
