This was what I had been saying to myself hour by hour for two years, but there were times when it seemed that my brain, my whole system, was collapsing in the nervous irritation, in the chafing and the straining of this existence, which was filled with nothing but Successless work, continuous disappointment, and unsatisfied desires.
"To-morrow?"
Victoria Cross
Women often, for their own sakes, will keep the last secret; but will ostentatiously din the ears of gods and men with their clamours upon a Successless offer.
"Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9)"
Samuel Richardson
The bishop could throw no light on the missing article, and this call ended the Successless tour of investigation.
"Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley"
Belle K. Maniates