Utiliser "bootless" dans une phrase

1. "Well!" said that good-natured emissary, after a full half-hour of bootless attempts to bring him round to the question

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2. And then the starving, bootless, ragged, stupid wretches fell down and worshipped the System, and offered up their children as living sacrifices upon its altars, saying:

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3. The cry brought him skulking back to his master and a blunt bootless kick sent him unscathed across a spit of sand, crouched in flight

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4. And his bootless foot is lasting lame;

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5. Makes speed to catch the tiger- bootless speed,

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