“All these great plans were in vain, however, for in the cold dawn following the "Mania" years of 1845–46 the M.B.M. & M.J.R. project was truncated to an 11+¹⁄₂-mile line from Ambergate to Rowsley.”

“Knock ⟳ me down, it's all in vain I get ⟳ right back on my feet again”

“Thou ſhalt not take ⟳ the Name ⟳ of the Lord thy God in vaine:[…]”

“Methinks I see ⟳ him even now in my mind's eye;— the firm and upright figure ⟳,— the step, quick and determined, — the eye, which shot so keen and so penetrating a glance ⟳,— the features on which care had already planted wrinkles, and hear ⟳ his language, in which he never wasted word in vain, expressed in a voice which had sometimes an occasional harshness, far from the intention of the speaker.”

“A fetishist regime attempts to annul the separation of image and spectator, to reinstall an immediate relation that promises (in vain) to provide ⟳ satisfaction to desire itself.”

“This petition is the reverse side of the commandment against taking God's name ⟳ in vain.”

“McLaren's task, it seems, is to set ⟳ Jesus in a more appropriate and biblical context so that we won't use ⟳ his name ⟳ “in vain.””

“That's fine. I know ⟳ you won't engage ⟳ your word in vain.”

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