...Thus he lived in the same manner as when he had noother shelter than the forests of Tabor Island, and as all persuasion toinduce him to improve his life was in vain, the colonists waitedpatiently... 
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
...Very handsome peopleare almost always vain, often exacting, and generallylive on their form, paying little or no attentionto the rarer qualities of manhood orwomanhood...
James W. Donovan 「Don't Marry」
...He paused once more, but in vain, at the entranceof that barrier...
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...After vain efforts to detain these fugitives, he collected theirmuskets, which were still loaded, became once more a common soldier,and, with only four others, kept facing thousands of the enemy...
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...For a Master Pilot of the World does not gethis rating on vain boasts...
Various 「Astounding Stories, August, 1931」
...Through the agony of the stabbing electrical waves, in vain Garthtried to wrench his legs free...
Various 「Astounding Stories, August, 1931」
...In vain he had appealed to the various usurers of Paris, telling them of his property beyond the ocean...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...Lies, all lies! In vain they were dropping bombs, destroying garrets, killing or wounding old men, women and babes...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...Their voices had been exhausted in vain protest...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
... In vain the Frenchman repeated arguments and facts which everybody had read from the beginning of the war...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...In vain the cannon nearest hurled their deadly fire...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
... Vain were the senator’s efforts to show him the impossibility of such a journey...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...In vain does he urge his love for literature, and thetroubles which he had endured for its sake; no seat can he get...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 「The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha」
...Promptedby friendship, I employed the best arguments I could suggest todivert him from such a purpose; but finding it was all in vain, Iresolved to acquaint his father, the duke, with the affair...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 「The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha」
...Sancho struggled in vain torelease himself from one of the canon's servants, who preventedhim from going to assist his master...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 「The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha」
... how vain are the intentions oflovers! Why don't you swear...
Antonio de Trueba Henry J. Gill 「The Cid Campeador」
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