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... in the block; one or the other would be in. She ran to the door, to find it locked. She had forgotten. Next she found the telephone wire cut and the speaking tube battered and inutile. She would have to return to her own apartment to summon help. She dared not leave the light on. The scoundrels might possibly return, and the light would warn them that their victim had been discovered; and naturally they would wish to ascertain whether or not they ...

— The Drums Of Jeopardy • Harold MacGrath

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... Ermentrude envied him his repose. He had never stared into the maddening mirror which turned poets into Supermen and—sometimes monsters. Had she herself not gazed into this distorting glass? The tune of her life had never sounded so discouragingly faint and inutile. Perhaps she did not posses the higher qualities that could extort from a nature so rich and various as Octave Keroulan's its noblest music! Perhaps his wife had told the truth to Mrs. Sheldam and had lied to her! And then, through ...

— Visionaries • James Huneker

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... l'analyse du fruit de M. Richard. La traduction vaudra mieux que l'original. Outre ces lectures, ce qui vous apprendra surtout la structure des plantes, c'est de les analyser et de les decrire vous-meme d'apres les termes techniques; ce travail deviendrait penible et inutile a faire sur un grand nombre de plantes, et il vaut mieux ne le faire que sur un tres petit nombre d'especes choisies dans des classes tres distinctes. Quelques descriptions faites aussi completes qu'il vous sera possible vous apprendra ...

— Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville • Mary Somerville

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Words linked to "Inutile" : inutility, useless