Adjective : unfruitful efforts. ,an unfruitful marriage. ,unfruitful acres. ,an unfruitful tree. From Dictionary.com.
Less forgivable is that Behe dismissed such research as 'unfruitful'. From Wordnik.com. [The God Delusion]
The Blue Laws of Connecticut in 1650 denounced gambling because it fostered too much "unfruitful" time. From Wordnik.com. [Internet Gambling: No Mere Roll Of The Dice] Reference
These species are self-sterile or self-unfruitful. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948] Reference
And, theirs was a pitiful and unfruitful case indeed. From Wordnik.com. [Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope] Reference
Nature will remove and make unfruitful the lower ones. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951] Reference
Search in that vast sea would be tedious and unfruitful. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
I give up for now on a pursuit that has proved unfruitful. From Wordnik.com. [j-gan Diary Entry] Reference
An attempt will also be made to graft a few large -- unfruitful. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting Downington, Pennsylvania, September 11 and 12, 1933] Reference
He has not cast out the unfruitful, but has tenderly spared them. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
This is a revival of the long-endured, unfruitful, old-time method. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
All of the varieties tried were self-unfruitful or self-incompatible. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952] Reference
Door -- (Open) opportunities; (closed) unfruitful adventure; (to force) reproof. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
The subsequent unfruitful job search, though, was a frustrating roller-coaster ride. From Wordnik.com. [Faces] Reference
But yesterday she had heard him singing, coming back from his day's unfruitful task. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
Beyond some extension of geographical knowledge however, the venture was unfruitful. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness: but rather reprove them. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 56: Ephesians The Challoner Revision] Reference
There was one file left and it looked as dull and potentially unfruitful as the others. From Wordnik.com. [Frost at Christmas]
Now the adoration of images must be numbered among the unfruitful works in two respects. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
I bless Thee, even that I am not yet cast out as an abominable branch, though so unfruitful. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England] Reference
And let our men also learn to excel in good works for necessary uses: that they be not unfruitful. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
After this deed Harald Greyfell reigned as King of Norway for five troublous and unfruitful years. From Wordnik.com. [Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age] Reference
The Roman Catholic gentry were compelled to remove beyond the Shannon River to unfruitful Connaught. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Yet in the midst of this clock-like regularity his labors were broken by frequent unfruitful seasons. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
And light in the soul scares away "the unfruitful works of darkness"; they cannot dwell with the light. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
St. Paul says, "If I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.". From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
And what trees do not by neglect become gnarled and unfruitful, whereas by pruning they become fruitful and productive?. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Let then the law be with thee to love it, and do it in the spirit of the gospel, that thou be not unfruitful in thy life. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
The term, "self-sterile" is often used, but I think it is a little more exact to say self-unfruitful or self-incompatible. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952] Reference
Some women would be the happiest women in the world if they could render 98 per cent. of their conjugal relations unfruitful. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference
Let mercy forget him: may worms be his sweetness: let him be remembered no more, but be broken in pieces as an unfruitful tree. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
But only an example of multitudes who have become near-sighted and unfruitful through a so-called new evangelism that is not new. From Wordnik.com. [To Infidelity and Back] Reference
That scriptural source has been distinctly unfruitful in these latter days, and few authors are willing to take a prophet's chances. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
His excavations at Jmei el-Amdîd, the supposed site of Mendes, have been unfruitful, and he has fared no better at Tel el-Baghliyeh. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
And it was while he was struggling amid such cruel and unfruitful reflections as these that the devil of anxiety whispered in his ear. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
They may give pain, but cannot impart fertility: the spirit much distressed may be as unfruitful as the spirits that are at ease in Zion. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
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