"Good Master, what do we, circling round and about so bootlessly?

He intended to unlimber the part of him which had longed so bootlessly for Her Nibs these last three weeks and use it to hose down their dead faces.

She knew what they used in the tik plantations back home; she had even been sentenced to a fortnight of hard labor-as she'd called it, bootlessly, at the time-driving one of the harvesters.