But no time must now be lost in unavailing lamentation. From Wordnik.com. [The Scottish Chiefs] Reference
Kaplan also rejected Ghailani's claim that his intelligence value dissipated over time, calling his argument "unavailing". From Wordnik.com. [The enduring appeal of trying terrorists before military commissions] Reference
Whereupon the story of the unavailing search was told. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Patrol] Reference
Sometimes the launch is utterly unavailing, as was the case on a. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
Without these qualities, every other merit will prove unavailing. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
The protests of the granger's defender and friend were unavailing. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
Persis gave up her unavailing scrutiny and climbed slowly to her feet. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
I tried to pacify and persuade him; yet all my efforts were unavailing. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
He went from one room to another, but all efforts at rest were unavailing. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference
Ignorance and blindness may "try all other ways," and they prove unavailing. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
But his strenuous efforts to enlist the Pottawatomi in the cause were unavailing. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
Count said so decisively that further argument was mutually dropped as unavailing. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
About half-past one the fleet withdrew, seeing their efforts were entirely unavailing. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
In case such efforts are unavailing, it is necessary to "shoot" the jam with dynamite. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
It soon ploughed up the mud in which it buried itself; our musket-balls were unavailing. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
I made an unavailing attempt to struggle through the aperture, but the attempt was hopeless. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Pirate] Reference
It was seen after a short discussion that this would be unavailing, and the service went on. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
His efforts to capture the city, or the high ground north of it, were necessarily unavailing. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Anthony's protests were unavailing when the ministering angel mood descended upon his mother. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
After two years, spent in unavailing search, he came back a sad and almost broken-hearted man. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
I was compelled to sell out at a great sacrifice, and all my efforts at reform were unavailing. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference
The remedies applied by Mary, and by the physician who was hastily summoned, proved unavailing. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
The historical "penance" that on the stage seemed so effective was, as we know, really unavailing. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Were the whole world to conspire in one effort that spring should come next it would be unavailing. From Wordnik.com. [The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866] Reference
There is general weeping, and great unavailing regret, and much commiseration for the widow: and then. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
"Some of the settlers," says the Chronicle, "finding resistance to be unavailing, fled to the woods.". From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
Her bodyguard's efforts to revive her with CPR were unavailing, and she was pronounced dead at the hospital. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Nicole's Tabloid Odyssey] Reference
The poor fellow called out to his friends, "Pull; hold on; don't let go"; but their utmost exertions were unavailing. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
The sharp iron stem had cut into the creature to the depth of a foot, and all efforts to get it clear were unavailing. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892] Reference
He inquired of the guard stationed there, and that, too, proving unavailing, left directions for its return, if found. From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
In late years efforts have been made to secure these cannon as souvenirs, but the search for them has proved unavailing. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Her tiny handkerchief was all unavailing to quench this flow, and in a very short while it was only a small lump of wet. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
She was pinned in against the oak tree by interlocked branches which her strength seemed unavailing to so much as disturb. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
In such a case, there would be a crowd of ardent sympathizers, though it were known that their sympathy would be unavailing. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
The representations of the minister were here unavailing; he would listen to nothing but the dictates of his own vindictive feelings. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
When conferences are used tactically as a reward, as they sometimes are, they are just as unavailing of anything we would call action. From Wordnik.com. [The Conference Dodge] Reference
My search was for the time unavailing; returning to the vicinity of the temple, I laid down upon the ground and awaited the summons of. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
Yet here, amid these infinite labyrinths, even the power of Rome was unavailing, and her baffled emissaries faltered at the very entrance. From Wordnik.com. [The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome] Reference
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