How To Use Unavailing In A Sentence
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Yes, or made way with ourselves in an access of emotional insanity, supposed to have been induced by unavailing flat-hunting," he suggested.
A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 1
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And, O my Guardian Angel, too remissive of thy Charge! why had I not some secret Warnings of my future Fate? why did I range so long in Foreign Courts, in search of trifling Pleasures, and unavailing Knowledge, while my
The Fatal Secret: or, Constancy in Distress
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The reformist road to socialism was unavailing, but the reformist road to a more humane capitalism doesn't look much more hopeful.
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But tears and prayers were unavailing; all of man he had ever had in his nature was now brutified by strong drink; as well might she have knelt to the tiger thirsting for blood, as to him.
Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside
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That sense of justice which guides every party in our just Austrian land, does not entirely exclude her either; at the same time, this _very same sense of justice_ must render all her remonstrances unavailing.
Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2
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an unavailing attempt
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Henry, their eldest child, grew up on their small selection, witnessing his father's unavailing struggle to make a living as a farmer and prospector, and the slow disintegration of his parents' marriage.
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He would have gone moping about for years in disconsolate solitude, silent and sullen as a ghost, or would have rent the air with unavailing shrieks and lamentations.
Review
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Monty did make a magnificent eagle at the final hole - his approach finished no more than a yard from the cup - to haul himself up to an unavailing eight-over par.
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Tens of thousands of fruit flies have come and gone in laboratory experiments, and every last one of them has remained a fruit fly to the end, all efforts to see the miracle of speciation unavailing.
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This has been compounded by an unavailing resort to extreme force in the most heated zones of engagement.
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In these and hundreds of other cases he uses remorse almost as promiscuously as the adjective "awful" is now often popularly used where a much milder word would do, and in his employment of it in relation to his dead wife, it is his sense of profound and unavailing sorrow that he desires to convey by it or his despairing consciousness of his own unworthiness of the woman he had beatified.
New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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The landlords cry that the decision is a "disincentive" to upgrade or maintain their properties is unavailing.
Elizabeth Donoghue: The Stuy Town Decision: A Good Reality Check for New York
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When their controls proved unavailing, and the charges failed to meet their exacting code of conduct, they could be seen meting out punishments that were also immoderate, disproportionate to the supposed offense.
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The passion of revenge, which had in part stimulated her to the commission of this atrocious deed, died, even at the moment when it was gratified, and left her to the horrors of unavailing pity and remorse, which would probably have empoisoned all the years she had promised herself with the Marquis de Villeroi, had her expectations of an alliance with him been realized.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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Dirt, one would fancy, is plenty enough all over the world, being the symbolic accompaniment of the foul incrustation which began to settle over and bedim all earthly things as soon as Eve had bitten the apple; ever since which hapless epoch, her daughters have chiefly been engaged in a desperate and unavailing struggle to get rid of it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
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Efforts to reach the people named in the report proved unavailing.
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Having rejected an unavailing reformist road to socialism, they now believed they had reformed capitalism substantially enough that the interests of workers and capitalists coincided.
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The second response to the sterility objection - that a procreation requirement would be unduly intrusive - is equally unavailing.
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He died after a brave but unavailing fight against a terminal illness.
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In cases where, under the provisions of a above, demand on a carrier is required and the owner fails to make such demand seasonably or fails to make reasonable efforts to collect the amount recoverable from the carriers, the amount otherwise payable under these provisions will be reduced by the maximum amount recoverable from the carrier if claim therefore had been filed with such carrier within the time limit, provided that it is not found that demand in any event was impracticable or would have been unavailing
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10053
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The students' petition proved unavailing, as were Professor Day's own efforts to persuade the administration to reconsider its position.
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My own search for this has proven unavailing, so I thought I'd call on my readers' knowledge in this matter.
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I have taken the other side of the unavailing inflation ‘debate,’ arguing that inflation is anything but dead and bond prices anything but a sure bet.
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To herself, Mrs. Berlinton said, the evil of this transaction had been over, while yet it was unknown; she had heard it, therefore, in silence, and forborne unavailing reproach.
Camilla
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Detroit Aircraft's frantic efforts to regain stability were unavailing and, in October, the corporation floundered into receivership.
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He came: he found the islanders beside themselves at this unwelcome resurrection of the dead and the detested; he was shown, as adminicular of testimony, the traveller’s uncouth and thick-soled boots; he argued, and finding argument unavailing, consented to enter the room and examine with his own eyes the sleeping Pict.
Records of a Family of Engineers
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Inquiries made of the sellers and their forwarding agents after the event were unavailing because they were either elusive or unco-operative or both.
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Diplomatic efforts at peace-making have so far proved unavailing.
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Finally, when that proved unavailing, I put my hand on the punk's chest, shoved him off his board, and finished out my ride.
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But Palmerston's skill in management was unavailing in this case and the "muss" (as Mason called it) was continued when Lindsay entered upon a long account of the interview with Napoleon, renewed the accusations of Russell's "revelations" to Seward and advised Roebuck not to withdraw his motion but to postpone it "until Monday.
Great Britain and the American Civil War
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A weighted silence surged towards Daniel, empty and unavailing.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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That, too, is typical of heathenism, which is sad with unavailing cries and ignorant of answers to any.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
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He died after a brave but unavailing fight against a terminal illness.
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The ‘last’ in last resort can mean ‘only,’ in circumstances where there is plausible reason to believe that nonmilitary actions are unavailable or unavailing.
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That fills the Soul with unavailing ruth. admin Uncategorized ecclesiastical sonnets iv druidical excommunication, ira lightman, william wordsworth
Ira Lightman reads “Ecclesiastical Sonnets, IV. Druidical Excommunication” by William Wordsworth
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Efforts to reach the people named in the report proved unavailing.
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Cambridge did not grant women degrees until 1948, but in March 1897 Maitland delivered a superb if unavailing address favoring the women's cause.
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They also portrayed the unavailing attempt of Sergeant Watkinson to assail the group from below.
A DEAD LIBERTY
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They were the branning ducks, he on one side, she on the other side of the stream, as is their habit, whence they are fabled to be a pair of lovers who must yearn unavailingly through the long nights from opposite banks of the river.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876
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It made half-hearted and unavailing attempts to save itself as it was harried ever farther down the street.
THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
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All were unavailing and he had known they would be but he still kept trying; there was something of himself as yet unconquered.
THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
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And third, we have rights where ordinary economic and political levers of change prove unavailing in efforts to improve individual well-being.
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And maybe they are especially corrupting when they are unavailing: Suppose your ex-con doesn't care, and won't behave.
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Years of strenuous effort to prove the case have been unavailing.
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It is still unclear whether virtual education is really less expensive, and attempts to assess comprehensively the effectiveness of educational programs have been unavailing.
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He came: he found the islanders beside themselves at this unwelcome resurrection of the dead and the detested; he was shown, as adminicular of testimony, the traveller's uncouth and thick-soled boots; he argued, and finding argument unavailing, consented to enter the room and examine with his own eyes the sleeping Pict.
Records of a Family of Engineers
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Highland clans, endeavoured, with unavailing heroism, to cover the tumultuary retreat of the common file.
A Legend of Montrose