Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Vainly

Vainly spent, as dews on the sea.
—Charlotte Brontë

Vainly as the hydra bleeds.
—Friedrich von Schiller

Vainly given like rain upon the herbless sea poured down by too benignant heaven.
—John Sterling