A real-estate developer plans to build a shopping mall on the farm where Lincoln vainly urged Gen. George McClellan to pursue Gen. Robert E. Lee's depleted Army of Northern Virginia after the battle.

The gibbet was erected over against the haberdasher's shop, and Portmore was kept standing two hours on the ladder, while Topcliffe vainly urged him to withdraw his accusation.

Once on board, mothers carefully spread napkins over their children's laps to avoid spills and vainly urge their offspring to sit still, lest they wrinkle their pretty clothes.

Stephen cared for none of these things; the fire that vainly urged Jack to go ashore burnt with a devouring, an irresistible force in him.

Mandat had earlier vainly urged the queen to dismiss these gentlemen, because their presence discouraged the zeal of the constitutionalists.

And that training still keeps the Miss America pageant in business, despite the occasional minor agitation that vainly urges it to stop the swimsuit competition.

In this period he was cited before the Bishop of Exeter, his old friend Seth Ward, who vainly urged Howe to be reordained.

She vainly urged against him all her lack Of other trinkets.

Many of the soldiers were on foot, vainly urging their horses upward.