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Several Cassandras try in vain to make their prophetic voices heard, but everyone is deaf.
The fluttering blue flags marking cut areas in the scorched trees signal that my days bumping down these washboarded roads have been in vain.
She resorted to all her tricks to get at the grapes, but wearied herself in vain, for she could not reach them.
Poor Aunt Barb didn't know the frequency, and so she jiggled in vain until someone heard her cries for help and came to the rescue.
There are ballads, blues and western swing, and Burch describes it as music you might hear in a dream and try in vain to remember in the morning.
He said a car had just managed to squeeze past the people carrier, and he had tried to do the same but in vain.
The hen's efforts to carry on the task of rearing her young in such circumstances were in vain and they all died.
We looked in vain expecting the area to miraculously improve but alas, no such luck.
And so that these young people will not have died in vain, as President Lincoln said, we have to recommit our country to a sense of community.
After marrying in 1999, we had tried in vain for three years to conceive even though there was nothing really wrong with us.
As she leafs through the yellow pages, my eyes try in vain to grab a word or two from the looped, fastidious handwriting.
But it was in vain, as Bury kicked deep from the restart and the final whistle blew.
But try telling that to the little old lady who has waited in vain a couple of years for a vital eye operation.
I have been trying in vain for the past few months to find a pair of skinny jeans that are not low-rise.
We took Lucy along because Dad loves to see her and tries in vain to get her to play fetch the ball.
Search the Scriptures with the teachableness of a little child and thy labour will not be in vain.
Since it struck in the early '80s, researchers have scratched for a vaccine or a cure but in vain.
In Boston, British soldiers search the houses of the rebel leaders in vain.
One has looked in vain every week in the Craven Herald for some sign that the district council was seized of the need for more parking provision.
I searched in vain for the street seller I bought a necklace from and promptly lost in the Blue Lagoon near Keflavik.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He has not lived in vain, for he is a tree planter and believes in arboriculture.
My two years at lectures had not been passed in vain, and surgery had been my hobby.
We should in vain look for an example in the Spanish deportation or deletion of the Moors.
But owing to the strength of social democracy in this country, all Reinsdorf's efforts at agitation were in vain.
If it was bad enough to have grinned through a horse-collar it was very bad indeed to have grinned in vain.
It was in vain that M. de Rnal pressed Sorel to clinch the matter then and there.
For two hours Erasmus Smith, the Boer predicant, argued in vain in behalf of his flock.
Northerly and north-westerly winds prevailed, and we whistled in vain for a southerly buster to clear the coast of ice.
Carteret begged in vain for a rope yarn, a forge, and various things which his experience told him would be indispensable.
It was in vain Madame the directress exclaimed and expostulated at these improprieties.
With clasped hands, and in ringing tones, Hus begged in vain for a hearing.
These crowds you complain of are evidence that I have not discharged the function of paranymph in vain.
His friends and relatives tried in vain to stop him making himself ridiculous and being dragged down from the bema.
There is a spontaneousness about them we search for in vain in his work in oil and pastel.
Still the body of Hector lay on the ground, and the men of Ilion sought in vain to redeem it from Achilles.
He rode after us with his Lowlanders, protesting, threatening, cajoling in vain.
It is in vain that I am impenitently romantic, I would not take you there for anything in the world.
All attempts at evasion, at adjourning, at concealing and compromising are in vain.
The incantation that had never yet failed of its hated purpose was pronounced in vain.
Chamberlain in vain urged defense and political policies designed to centralize power in London.
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