Yes, my sister would like me to live here, in a foreign country, in cowlike tranquillity, looking at pictures and statues, and travelling pointlessly.
"Cæsar or Nothing"
PÃÂÂo Baroja Baroja
Vanderbank showed for the next short time by his behaviour what he felt at not yet being free to act on this; moving pointlessly about the room while the servants arranged the tea-table and taking no trouble to make, for appearance, any other talk.
"The Awkward Age"
Henry James
Robust and artless, eminently natural, yet perfectly correct, he looked pointlessly active and pleasantly dull.
"The Spoils of Poynton"
Henry James