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Example sentences for "little avail"

  • But the protestations of the Prior were of little avail.

  • In the face of such a combination our navy would have been of little avail.

  • The capture of the town, however, was of little avail, for in the centre of it stood a strong citadel, which we tried to take by assault, but could not.

  • God watch over you," said the Empress fervently, "for this is a case in which the protection of an earthly throne is of little avail.

  • Even if I were to relent, as you term it, the time is past, for Wilhelm is either dangling from the walls of Castle Schonburg or he is pardoned, and all that we could do would be of little avail.

  • In the acute form of lymphadenoma, treatment is of little avail.

  • As a rule the ordinary means of arresting hæmorrhage are of little avail.

  • Excision, unless performed early, is of little avail, and in any case should be followed up by exposure to radium.

  • Even where the end and the object are known to be of little avail, the talents and the fancy are often intensely applied, and business or play may amuse them alike.

  • The parade of words and general reasonings, which sometimes carry an appearance of so much learning and knowledge, are of little avail in the conduct of life.

  • The government perceived at last that violence was of little avail, and that those questions which were occupying the minds to such a degree could no longer be kept from being publicly discussed by the press.

  • Owing to its manifest weakness, this ordinance is of little avail.

  • If a patient is not nursed while the physician is absent, his treatment is of little avail; if children are not protected out of school hours, the purpose of the school is defeated.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little chap; little child shall lead; little comfort; little cousin; little danger; little doll; little essence; little exclamation; little figure; little figures; little fire; little groups; little home; little house; little light; little orange; little pause; little pepper; little pleasure; little room; little saint; little stock; little sweet; little thought; little water; will ever