Examples of using "Vaines " in a sentence and their english translations:
Your excuses are useless.
His jokes didn't come off.
All our attempts were in vain.
Let us not waste our time in idle discourse!
"Fear not this famine – 'tis an empty scare; / the Fates will find a way, and Phoebus hear thy prayer."
But, knowing precisely sadness and love and death, and that they are vain images when we observe them from the calm space where we should shut ourselves in, he kept on weeping, and desiring love, and fearing death.
Cold horror froze each vein. / Aghast and shuddering my comrades stood; / down sank at once each heart, and terror chilled the blood. / No more with arms, for peace with vows and prayer / we sue, and pardon of these powers implore, / or be they goddesses or birds of air / obscene and dire.