bootless

How To Use bootless In A Sentence

• And the men appeared, some of his watch, others of the second mate's watch, routed from sleep -- men coatless, and hatless, and bootless; men ghastly-faced with fear but eager for once to spring to the orders of the man who knew and could save their miserable lives from miserable death. CHAPTER XXXVIII
• So it is bootless for someone to ask for some further reassurance; that can only add to his stock of beliefs.
• And the men appeared, some of his watch, others of the second mate's watch, routed from sleep -- men coatless, and hatless, and bootless; men ghastly-faced with fear but eager for once to spring to the orders of the man who knew and could save their miserable lives from miserable death. CHAPTER XXXVIII
• Whilst making a desperate rush after one, cap in hand, and all too unheedful of the obstacles lying in my path, I struck the toes of my bootless left foot against a thin slab of earthfast stone, which stood edge-on and straight up.
• One should never greet a mystery guest bootlessly. Sweetblood
•   He subsequently surfaced in aficcione, a tale of his bootless pursuit of a reclusive poetess, modeled on one I'd met on-line. My Fictional Tormenter
• Daniel made no effort to conceal his bootlessness when the guests rose to leave the table; without giving the astonishment of his companions a single thought, he once more drew the patent leather torturers on to his extremities. Gänsemännchen. English
• Aside: Spent ages hunting, fruitlessly — or bootlessly, if you prefer — for this on YouTube after a pal old us about it. Archive 2007-04-01
• But my hands had been tied behind my back and when my bootless feet slipped on the ice I had no way of catching myself. On Desperate Seas « A Fly in Amber
• The attack was bootless and the guards immediately arrested Meir, the hero of the ghetto. Heroic