The luxurious aimlessness of her present life was a little heavy to the once poor, active, hard-working young governess, who had never known an idle or even a restful hour.
"Christian's Mistake"
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
In the face of a paralyzing universal aimlessness, there could be to him no abiding sense of life in his personal enjoyments and desires.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller
The dreary stretch of sodden grass, with stripped trees, and here and there a patch of dingy London snow, did not look particularly inviting, but I went in, wondering a little at my own aimlessness of mood.
"The House by the Lock"
C. N. Williamson