Fourth-seeded Majoli announced that she would be relieved merely to pass Wimbledon's first round after two fruitless visits.

But at that point I'd already spent a lot of time and money on fruitless visits to Beijing.

Between fruitless visits to Yeovil, she was given no chance to be idle.

A fruitless visit to the French Quarter had left him staring at a lot of dead ends.

He himself paid two fruitless visits to the site of a camp near Torzhok, 200 miles north of Moscow, where as late as 1987 Wallenberg was said to have been held.

It wasn't until 2004, after more than half a dozen fruitless visits from other art dealers, that Jeffrey Deitch offered him a show - the well-reviewed "Global Village Idiot."

Mr. Ma made one fruitless visit to the company, some months back, but has otherwise not joined in.

After a fruitless visit to Tasmania, made in the hope of composing his differences with the bishop, he went to Sydney in 1847 and was made priest in charge at Windsor.

But she continues to make fruitless visits to the office every day and survives by begging or eating discarded food.

He suspected the big, bronzed, handsome cowboy who had come out of the rooming house on Fiftieth Street when Ralph Trent had made his fruitless visit.