Since he had risen that morning he had thought of nothing but of Jeanne, and--in connection with her--of Percy and his vain quest of her.

He was engaged in this so-far vain quest when he was hailed by a familiar voice.

He still doesn't know, though he is in touch with America West every few weeks in a vain quest for answers.

In the 60's, people smoked banana peels in a vain quest for this particular buzz.

For several years, she has been returning in a vain quest for one just like it.

Unhappy couples put off divorce rather than join the vain quest for new living quarters.

I will reason with Sparhawk about this presently, and I have no doubt that he can be persuaded to abandon this vain quest.

"The Drum Major Instinct" addresses the vain quest for supremacy and the need to rechannel that desire to be first in the pursuit of higher goals.

"Tanner on Tanner" tracks Alex's vain quest to make a film about her father that also plumbs the souls of other failed presidential candidates.

And did not all the four thousand Indians and three hundred of the brave cavaliers die on that vain quest?