The cops were futilely searching the wide river with their searchlight, looking for the helicopter, for anything, but there was nothing left to see.
While a firefighter's ax futilely pounded on the outside, she seized the wide bar of the door and ripped it open, to the sound of wrenching metal.
Hicks' door, bore the futilely squirming, kicking youth into the room, and hurled him on the davenport.
Big Butch Brewster, lecturing him for his care-free ways, as futilely as he had done for three years past, gave up in despair.
In fact he met the brute midway in its charge, striking its huge body with his closed fists and as futilely as he had been a fly attacking an elephant.
There before him stood the terrified girl vainly trying to fire another bullet into the animal's body; but she did not understand the mechanism of the firearm, and the hammer fell futilely upon an empty cartridge.
He was on his feet in an instant and, leaping with the agility of the monkey he was, he gained the safety of a low limb as Horta, the boar, rushed futilely beneath.
Among those circling futilelythe outskirts of the banqueters was old Tublat.
The answer would not come now any more than it had come before in the subway, or in the train on the way out, when he had set his brain so futilely to solve the problem.
That cowboy had known she was coming; he must also have known why Manley did not meet her, and she wished futilely that she had questioned him, instead of walking beside him without a word.
Still, he wished futilely that he had not been quite so eager to cover up Manley's weakness and deceive the girl.
Daddy Dunnigan paused, frying-pan in hand, and peered futilelyout of the window.
The girl sank into the depths of her big chair and watched the sputtering little jet-flames lick futilely at the artificial logs of the fireplace.
In all the confusion these still scurried hither and yon, oblivious to the bombardment, laboring frantically but futilely to clear away the debris.
Some buzzed round and round in drunken circles; others ran head-on into one another, or tumbled into shell-holes to lie futilely spinning their wheels.
The machine with the torch was flung bodily into the air and went rolling and bouncing down the hill, wheels futilely spinning.
Futilely the Englishman tried to lift the corpse over the side of the boat, but his strength was not equal to the task.
But it had been as well had he saved his breath, for the brute was deaf and blind to all else save the particular object of his rage that raced futilely before him.
More than once that day he went up to the crag and stood and stared futilely at the footprint.
Sometimes old Quimbey would fairly flee the town, and betake himself in a towering rage to his deserted hearth, to brood futilely over the ashes, and devise impotent schemes of vengeance.
The little jocularity which she affected dwindled and died before the steady glow of his gaze, and she falteringly looked at him, her unguided hands futilely fumbling with the lantern.
The man clubbed his rifle and struck futilely at the broad head, and then he was down and the carnivore was standing above him.
He leaped futilely at the grinning ape-man, tore at the protruding end of the shaft, and then, springing into the trail, paced back and forth beneath his tormentor.
Then Sing pulled the trigger again and again, but the cylinder would not revolve and the hammer fell futilely upon the empty cartridge.
Rosal lay the undulating horizon, presently to burst into living flame, transmuting the dull steel bars of the window into fairy gold, that trick of alchemy so futilely sought by man.
In truth he had in the course of his career shown them as futilely to women who were much older and far, far uglier, and contemplating purchase as remotely.
Walter cast about futilely for an assurance that he might have the satisfaction of reducing all this.
She paused at the rail and glanced down the rusty black side of the ship and watched the thread of frothing water that clutched futilely at the red water-line.
So futilely ended the strain on the remembered page, but while his unsuspected gaze abode on her lifted eyes her thought prolonged the note: "If he meant love to-night, why did he not stand to his meaning when I laughed it away?
The others, powerless to aid, stood breathlessly about as the great lion lunged hither and thither, clawing and biting fearfully and futilelyat the savage creature that had fastened itself upon him.
Its tough, armored hide was impregnable to their knife thrusts while their thrown clubs rattled from it as futilely as if hurled at the rocky shoulder of Pastar-ul-ved.
He lunged at them trying to catch them, and falling upon his hands and knees he crawled through the water grasping futilely at the elusive fish.
And with her last cartridge she had killed a black and yellow striped lion-thing with great saber teeth just as it was about to spring upon Obergatz who had futilely emptied his rifle into it--the last shot--his final cartridge.
He clung futilely to the gunwales as he was dragged cursing from the bobbing pinnace and hoisted on the backs of two small Indian men.
Kumada had begun to whirl in a circle and shake her head, futilely trying to dislodge the wounded fury slashing at her leather armor.
Some were following futilely after the retreating galleons, while others were already rowing toward the river mouth.
Maida's voice, futilely attempting to broadcast over the uproar.
The slim body crumpled in his arms again while pitifully weak hands beat futilely in his face.
He had waited too often and futilely in the past for porcupines to unroll, to waste any more time.
Tied securely, White Fang could only rage futilely and endure the punishment.
Mr. Pike was gloomy, but I knew him well enough to attribute his gloom, not to the elements, but to the inefficients futilely freezing on the yard.
The expression on his face was of pain and hopelessness, and as he pressed his abdomen he lumbered futilely about, ever seeking something he might do and ever failing to find it.
Sally was fighting her way toward the "alley" exit, her frail, small body hurling itself futilely against men who had lost all thought of chivalry, knew only that death threatened.
And she relaxed as much as possible, her head on Van's shoulder, her feet pushing futilely at the sodden mass of canvas that weighted them down.
Brent puttered futilely about the room, and addressed the Indian.
When the loose muck was thrown out he swore at the slow progress, and futilely attacked the floor of the shaft with his pick as though to win down to bed-rock through the iron-hard frost.
He struggled feebly, and futilely he cursed, but the effort redoubled the ache in his head, and a terrible nausea seized him, from which he emerged weak and unprotesting while the Indian bound him upon the load.
The general's jaw hardened and he pawed futilely at the switch.
He stared futilelyat the instruments as if he could wring out more secrets than the panel had electronic access to.
And as priest after priest sought futilely to keep that long blade from his throat, Tharn knew, now, why Vulcar had said few could equal that young man with such a weapon.
With wide distended jaws Sadu lowered his head past the futilely flailing arms.
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