She had cast about unavailingly, finding no trace. From Wordnik.com. [The Game Of Empire]
Clennam tried to do honour to the meal, but unavailingly. From Wordnik.com. [Little Dorrit] Reference
How long I should have mourned thus unavailingly I cannot tell. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference
Thus the unhappy pair unavailingly recriminated, till my cousin. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
But it seemed to be wedged in some way, and she tore at it unavailingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
So England watches trade slipping through her fingers and wails unavailingly. From Wordnik.com. [WANTED: A NEW LAW OF DEVELOPMENT] Reference
Corliss asked, unavailingly, for the fourth time after he had got into his cabin. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER 11] Reference
They protested vehemently, but unavailingly, against interference with their pilots. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference
She struggled furiously and unavailingly, resorting at last to cruelty to gain her end. From Wordnik.com. [Desert Love] Reference
Here once more he shook unavailingly upon the latch, and drummed pitifully with his fists. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
Lanterns were then brought, and every accessible part of the vessel was unavailingly searched. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
"Well now, Dave," said Roscoe, trying unavailingly to smooth over the ugly sound in Ward's voice. From Wordnik.com. [Behold the Stars]
In this state, the voice of the preacher thundered remorselessly, but unavailingly, upon her ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Letter] Reference
That it would do this was almost certain, for all that morning he searched unavailingly for the ARROW. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat, or, the Rivals of Lake Carlopa] Reference
Occasionally he would address the most piteous entreaties to his cruel parent, but always unavailingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859] Reference
I regret that certain claims of American citizens against the Government of Hayti have thus far been urged unavailingly. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
The hunt was over and, while the big fox crouched in the corner regaining his breath, the dogs raved unavailingly without. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
After the war, he visited the regenerated city, and, for curiosity, sought unavailingly the jail where he had been confined. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
The influence that led others into the error of imitation, seems to have been exerted unavailingly upon his self-reliant mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884] Reference
Some must agonize and spend their strength unavailingly, like birds beating their wings against the bars of a cage for freedom. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the East] Reference
What he must do, what he could not avert by any effort, was the thing for which she strove unavailingly -- to remember herself. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
There he had dispatched a telegram to Penelope, and having waited unavailingly for a reply he had come straight on to town by rail. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
"I can't waste your time, gentlemen," stammered Hornblower; he was on the verge of the abyss and striving unavailingly to draw back. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower And The Crisis]
He wished to prevent me from forming an early and what he considered an imprudent marriage, which I might one day regret, unavailingly. From Wordnik.com. [Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick] Reference
As she finished speaking a bell pealed through the flat -- pealed with an irritable suggestion that it had been rung unavailingly before. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
Ford gouged unavailingly at the sides of the ruts. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of the White Mule] Reference
One or two of them were actually penetrated, but unavailingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo] Reference
I struggled unavailingly to produce an expression of meek stupidity. From Wordnik.com. [Tono Bungay] Reference
Every effort was unavailingly made by the Democrats, under the lead of. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Conspiracy, Volume 6] Reference
Those who were up made a desperate rush for their horses, but unavailingly. From Wordnik.com. [Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains] Reference
A long time she lay thinking, planning, hoping, praying; alike unavailingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo] Reference
After searching the shelves unavailingly, he glanced over his shoulder and asked. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader] Reference
"Sahib, in pursuit unavailingly of chance emolument in neighborhood of Chandni Chowk just recently --". From Wordnik.com. [The Winds of the World] Reference
We hung about, unavailingly, in the bitter wind a while longer, and then slowly, very slowly, made our way home. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship] Reference
Twice already had he carried unavailingly my request that Roxalanne should accord me an interview ere I departed. From Wordnik.com. [Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys...] Reference
Temple and I argued the case with him, as of old on our voyage, on board the barque Priscilla, quite unavailingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference
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