Let us have no part in profitless quarrels. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"It's sometimes referred to as profitless prosperity.". From Wordnik.com. [News & Features from Minnesota Public Radio] Reference
I am tired of the day with its profitless labours. From Wordnik.com. [Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses] Reference
Neither completely yields to profitless conjecture. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
The education of chance would prove unbalanced, morbid, profitless. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
This, also, the pupil would find profitless, and for the same reason. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
After seven profitless years the company's fortunes may be turning around. From Wordnik.com. [Baby Makers Inc.] Reference
What's more, a record number of profitless companies successfully sold stock. From Wordnik.com. [Ipos: Jumping Over The Moon] Reference
March, volunteer, and disentangle yourself from these profitless speculations!. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference
"This is profitless prosperity," complains Morgan Stanley analyst Steve Girsky. From Wordnik.com. [Another Auto Exec Heads For The Hills] Reference
"This is profitless prosperity," warns Morgan Stanley auto analyst Steve Girsky. From Wordnik.com. [Zero-Sum Game] Reference
To give a detailed account of them appears to be a hopeless and profitless task. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
And what a profitless occupation is the aimless collecting of heterogeneous books. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
The crowd seemed to take great pleasure in this sight, but to me it was profitless. From Wordnik.com. [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference
But the cisterns which you have dug for yourselves are broken and profitless to you. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
Manila, and in his native village his technical acquirements were generally profitless. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The mere intellectual apprehension of them is not possible, or if possible, profitless. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics] Reference
Then life seemed empty and profitless; and in its emptiness his voice echoed all the louder. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
Fast young men are to him befooled prodigals, wasting the wealth of life in profitless living. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
The grain growing States had to emancipate their slaves, to rid themselves of a profitless system. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
In iii. 1-8 times are so fixed and determined that human labour is profitless, iii. 9, while in iii. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference
All his pugnacity was engaged in what seemed to be a profitless struggle with the speech of the grammar. From Wordnik.com. [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference
It is profitless here to go into the question of the treatment of the slaves by their Portuguese masters. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
Prince, who was certainly a very impetuous leader; but it is ill work buffeting the dead, and profitless also. From Wordnik.com. [For The Admiral] Reference
The mindless (and presumably profitless) trend of chef's ego books has slackened in favor of more thoughtful reads. From Wordnik.com. [Style: Glorious Food Books] Reference
Under other conditions, it frequently proves small, waxy, and inferior in quality, and profitless to the cultivator. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
The girls were impressed and their hearts ached for Dan Higgins, his years of hope and work and his profitless mine. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run] Reference
The excitement of the game, and the lure of the desert, and the love of a horse were what kept him at the profitless work. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
Gardening is profitless when the gardener does not know the habits of plants and the possibilities of different kinds of soil. From Wordnik.com. [Civics and Health] Reference
Criticism which glorifies any one book of a given author at the expense of all his other books is profitless, if not dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
The following days were spent in almost profitless activity as far as their basic purpose in being in the Nucleus was concerned. From Wordnik.com. [Cubs of the Wolf] Reference
Still, as the more that was obtained the less was the general value, the operation became more profitless still; and at length both. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
It would be a tedious and profitless task to go over the bickerings and quarrels that occurred between the inhabitants and the soldiers. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863] Reference
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