In the two Henry IV plays, he is a companion to Prince Hal, the future King Henry V. A fat, vain, boastful, and cowardly knight, Falstaff leads the apparently wayward Prince Hal into trouble, and is ultimately repudiated after Hal becomes king.

* The Duke: A vain, toadying nobleman who helps the King run the castle and shares in the duties of the government.

* Pope Gregory III appeals in vain to Charles Martel for help against the expansionist policies of Liutprand, King of the Lombards.

King Xuan fought the Quanrong nomads in vain.

The dominating conflict of his rule was the Scandinavian Seven Years ' War from 1563 to 1570, in which he tried in vain to conquer Sweden, which was ruled by his cousin, the insane King Eric XIV.

In Ferrara, the death of Azzo VIII d ' Este without legitimate heirs ( 1308 ) encouraged Clement to bring Ferrara under his direct rule: for only nine years, however, was it governed by his appointed vicar, Robert d ' Anjou, King of Naples, before the citizens recalled the Este from exile ( 1317 ); interdiction and excommunications were in vain: in 1332 John XXII was obliged to name three Este brothers as his vicars in Ferrara.

King Burgred of Mercia fought in vain against the Ivar the Boneless and his Danish invaders for three years until 874, when he fled to Europe.

In 1943, the Crown Princess Maria José, the daughter of King Albert I of Belgium, involved herself in vain attempts to arrange a separate peace treaty between Italy and the United States, and her interlocutor from the Vatican was Monsignor Giovanni Battista Montini, a senior diplomat who later became Pope Paul VI.

It was fortified in 773 by the Lombard King Desiderius in his vain attempt to conquer Rome.

Soon after, the King takes a new wife, who is beautiful but also very vain.

Somerset tried in vain to raise a popular force and entrenched himself with the King at the fortress Windsor Castle.

The Duke was stung by an outspoken letter he received from John Knox, whom he had invited to preach before the King and in vain had offered a bishopric.

Distracted by the renewed war with Nicaea, and waiting in vain for assistance from Pope Honorius III and the King of France Philip II, the Latin Empire was unable to prevent the final fall of Thessalonica to Epirus in 1224.

King Charles V tried to remove the appanage system, but in vain.

In 1289 King James II of Aragon besieged the city in vain.

In 1631, during the Thirty Years ' War, the emissaries of George William, Elector of Brandenburg met at Köpenick-then some distance outside Berlin-with the approaching army of Gustav Adolph, King of Sweden, in a vain effort to stop the ongoing devastation of Brandenburg.

In Bayonne, she waited for a while hoping that the King would call her back, in vain.

In the show, Marian was portrayed as the real leader of the Merry Men, whilst Robin was a vain coward who was mistakenly believed to be the leader by King John and the Sheriff of Nottingham.

In 1943, the Crown Princess Maria José, the daughter of King Albert I of Belgium, involved herself in vain attempts to arrange a separate peace treaty between Italy and the United States, and her interlocutor from the Vatican was Monsignor Giovanni Battista Montini, a senior diplomat who later became Pope Paul VI.

After his release, he sought in vain the assistance of King Charles VII of France and of his uncle Alfonso V ( who resided in Naples ).

She fought in vain against French intervention, writing to the King of France, asking in vain for British intervention, and exiling herself to Raiatea in protest.

King Christian II of Denmark and his wife Isabella ( in Denmark Elisabeth, sister to Charles V .) lived in Lier from 1523 after he had been driven out of Denmark by the nobility, He was waiting in vain, hoping to get military support from his brother in law.

The fall of Sis in April, 1375 put an end to the kingdom ; its last King, Leon V, was granted safe passage and died in exile in Paris in 1393 after calling in vain for another Crusade.

I rode in all directions — urged men by every consideration to pass over — but in vain.

The King, recorded in history as a man of action, seeing the impending disaster, impetuously urged his horse into the fast flowing river in a vain bid to save his servant, only to be also overcome and drowned by the torrent.

For Raeder, the idea that all of the suffering and sacrifice of the Great War, which had affected him personally was all in vain was unthinkable, and he become obsessed with making certain that Germany would one day obtain the " world power status " that the Reichs leaders had sought, but failed to achieve in the Great War.

" Dacre Fox perhaps further summed up the frustrations of the WSPU with the Church leaders in her statement recorded in the Suffragette after an interview with the Archbishop of Canterbury in January 1914 that, " The only feeling ( she ) experienced …… while she was interviewing the Archbishop of Canterbury ... was “ utter contempt ”... Mrs Dacre Fox said that the Archbishop's Chaplain was “ a pitiable object, trembling and with chattering teeth ”, and later was also reported to have said that, " I can only say that as I sat looking at that old man, the feeling which was uppermost in my mind was that of contempt …. I wondered if Calvary had almost been in vain.

" The protest proved to be in vain, for Hitler pardoned all those SA leaders and camp guards who were sentenced in the Hohnstein trial.

Some leaders of the Jewish community in Palestine, the Yishuv, argued that the loss of life had not been in vain, as the Patria's survivors had been allowed to stay in the country.

Balfour eventually resigned as Prime Minister in December 1905, hoping in vain that the Liberal leader Campbell-Bannerman would be unable to form a strong government.

Abbadie's income as dean of Killaloe was so small that he could not afford a literary amanuensis ; and Hugh Boulter, archbishop of Armagh, having appealed in vain to Lord Carteret, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on Abbadie's behalf, gave him a letter of introduction to Dr. Edmund Gibson, bishop of London, and Abbadie left Ireland.

Waterhouse was dismissed as architect in 1878 and succeeded by George Gilbert Scott, who, after extending the Chapel, provided additional accommodation with the construction of New Court in 1881, with letters on a series of shields along the string course above the first floor spelling out the Psalm text " Nisi Dominus aedificat domum …" (" Except the Lord build the house, their labour is but vain that build it ").

… For by rash, false, and vain oaths, the Lord is provoked and because of them this land mourns .”

' taking the name of the Lord in vain ' in the Judaeo-Christian tradition ).

The congregation responds " Amen " to each blessing, and " Baruch Hu Uvaruch Shemo " (" blessed is He and blessed is His Name ") when the chazzan invokes God's name in the signature " Blessed are You, O Lord ..." If there are not six members of the minyan responding " Amen ," the chazzan's blessing is considered in vain.

It was in vain that after the parliamentary revolution of January 2, 1870, Comte Daru revived, through Lord Clarendon, Count Beust's plan of disarmament after the Battle of Königgratz.

This is more than probably related to the commandment: " Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain " ( Exodus 20: 7 ).

The service of Vespers on Great Friday in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Byzantine Catholic churches uses the expression " impious and transgressing people ", but the strongest expressions are in the Orthros of Great Friday, which includes the same phrase, but also speaks of " the murderers of God, the lawless nation of the Jews " and referring to " the assembly of the Jews ", prays: " But give them, O Lord, their reward, for they devised vain things against Thee.

" He made honorable but vain endeavours to save Algernon Sidney and Lord Russell.

After this, the Litany of the Saints is said, followed by an antiphon and Psalm 126 ( in the Hebrew numbering ), which appropriately begins with the verse, " Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it ".

The prohibition on misuse ( not use ) of this name is the primary subject of the command not to take the name of the Lord in vain.

Lord Chief Justice Pemberton addressing these complaints said to the accused, " Look you, Mr. Plunket, it is in vain for you to talk and make this discourse here now ..." and later on again, “ Look you Mr Plunket, don't mis-spend your own time ; for the more you trifle in these things, the less time you will have for your defence ".

V 4 Lord, Let not all my hopes be vain, Create my heart entirely new, Which hypocrites could ne ' er attain, Which false apostates never knew.

: Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain.

As we confess that vain and rash swearing is forbidden Christian men by our Lord Jesus Christ and James his apostle, so we judge that the Christian religion doth not prohibit, but that a man may swear when the magistrate requireth, in a cause of faith and charity, so it be done according to the prophet's teaching, in justice, judgment, and truth.

He was recommended by the queen to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Sir Thomas Radclyffe, Earl of Sussex, on 30 June 1563, and in 1566 was employed as a captain by the Lord Deputy, Sir Henry Sidney, in a vain effort to induce O ' Neill to enter into negotiations with the government.

A young Presbyterian chaplain " worried what the consequences might be to the American cause of so many of all ranks so habitually taking the name of the Lord in vain.

Her reputation after her death and until the 1950s was dominated by Lord David Cecil ’ s assessment in Early Victorian Novelists ( 1934 ) that she was “ all woman ” who “ makes a creditable effort to overcome her natural deficiencies but all in vain ” ( quoted in Stoneman, 1987, from Cecil, p. 235 ).

" It is from the first verse of Psalm 127 which reads " If the Lord builds not the house, the builders labour but in vain ".

But it was in vain and she surrendered to the Lord.

He endeavors in the commentary to illustrate, as the central idea of the book, the dictum, " All is vain, except the fear of the Lord, which is the essential condition of man's real existence ," Venice, 1601.