1 Ethan, consumed with the longing for a last moment alone with Mattie, hung about impatiently while Denis made an ineffectual search in the obscurer corners of the store.
2 Lily's feelings were softer: she pitied him in a frightened ineffectual way.
3 Miss Gertrude Farish, in fact, typified the mediocre and the ineffectual.
4 If this were the case, his return showed that the struggle had been unsuccessful, for Lily knew he was not the man to waste his time in an ineffectual sentimental dalliance.
5 She made no ineffectual efforts to conduct her household en bonne menagere, going and coming as it suited her fancy, and, so far as she was able, lending herself to any passing caprice.
6 The warrior in the oak had maintained a quick, though ineffectual fire, from the moment of his discovery.
7 The sight of so many dark bodies, glancing before their eyes at the same instant, drew a hasty and consequently an ineffectual fire from the Hurons.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32 8 After two or three ineffectual attempts, he reeled, and fell heavily to the ground.
9 It was a strong effort of the spirit of good, but it was ineffectual.
10 I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead and found a passage to life, aided only by one glimmering and seemingly ineffectual light.
11 Thus not the tenderness of friendship, nor the beauty of earth, nor of heaven, could redeem my soul from woe; the very accents of love were ineffectual.
12 Pardon this gush of sorrow; these ineffectual words are but a slight tribute to the unexampled worth of Henry, but they soothe my heart, overflowing with the anguish which his remembrance creates.
13 I issue out on the sloping height of the ridge, whence wretched Teucrian hands were hurling their ineffectual weapons.
14 Some glance ineffectual from helmet and shield; some Venus the bountiful turned aside as they grazed his body.
15 At last the boy Ascanius and his troops burst through the ineffectual leaguer and issue from the camp.