Turning in another direction, he wandered for some time purposelessly, taking no note of the locality, until he had reached the belt of the woods which Alice had herself traversed on her road to the old ruin.
"The White Squaw"
Mayne Reid
Often at that moment she would vaguely, purposelessly, smile over to him, and he would smile in absolute reciprocity.
"Aurora the Magnificent"
Gertrude Hall
I spent my time either mewing piteously at the hall-door, or roaming purposelessly through the empty house, or watching, watching, faint and wearily, for the mice that never came.
"The Domestic Cat"
Gordon Stables