It had been a particularly fruitless session, but he had voiced hopes for the morrow.

Gesner was in both the 1895 and 1897 sessions of the legislature, with the 1897 session fruitless as the Oregon House of Representatives failed to organize.

I was just about to close the rather fruitless session when Matthew stopped me, disturbingly He emerged from silent reflection, as if he had made up his mind to something.

They were adjured, when the fruitless session finally closed, at least to keep this last evening together in mutual tolerance, and to observe the offices of the Church together at Vespers and Compline before parting the next morning to go their separate ways.

The tour found the band in the middle of fruitless sessions for their upcoming album, The Bends, so performing live was considered a welcome change.

Both told Secretary of State James Baker they want the next round of their intermittent, so far fruitless, sessions to be continuous.

During one fruitless session, Milton is racked with guilt for luring a fat girlfriend into bingeing on their first date: "In the end, she was looking at me as though I'd raped her," he tells Dr. Plotkin.

Officials of the pressmen's union, who have held 15 fruitless contract-bargaining sessions with management since February, believe that a showdown may come within the next two months.

Instead, after a season of spiteful winter storms, the landscape still seemed to be trapped in a sort of late-Pleistocene ice age, with plenty of snow pack greeting the smattering of anglers who ventured forth for a largely fruitless session of casting.

Parting ways after the fruitless sessions, the remaining two began to approach their music from a different angle.