But still he pleads with unavailing cry, Behold the light, O wanderer, look or die!
Since my inevitable death you know, You safely unavailing pity shew: 'Tis popular to mourn a dying foe.
They were unavailing for a long time, but ultimately successful; and he went back with her to France.
Wilt thou be the murtherer of thy men, in strifeunavailing and vain?
Too late--too late for all but unavailing slaughter, the spirit of the country rose amidst the violated pledges, but under the iron heel, of the Norman Master!
It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.
The local influence of my family was quite unavailing to obtain any employment in that department, for a man of Mr. Micawber's abilities.
I hope not; leave that silly, unavailing sort of resentment to women, and men like them, who are always guided by humor, never by reason and prudence.
Unavailing were the efforts of the doctor to revive the almost expiring lamp of life.
Sir Walter Raleigh had also made a very vigorous but unavailing effort to establish a colony in Virginia.
He however, made a weak and unavailing attempt to appease the wrath of the Long Island Indians.
The public charity for refugees has been wrung dry long ago, and the most heroic hearts of Poland, after having lost everything but life, in their unavailing struggle, are starving absolutely in the streets.
Great efforts have been making of late to get his sentence publicly reversed, but, though they deny his widow and children nothing else, this melancholy and unavailing satisfaction is refused them.
One day when I was reproaching him for his unavailing searches, and deploring the prostration of mind that followed them, he looked at me, and, smiling bitterly, opened a volume relating to the History of the City of Rome.
He saw before him an officer delegated to enforce the law, and perfectly well knew that it would be as unavailing to seek pity from a magistrate decked with his official scarf, as to address a petition to some cold marble effigy.
I had passively followed him up stairs, not wishing to fatigue myself with unavailing exertion.
But I must not suffer the fortitude I have so hardly acquired, to be undermined by unavailing regret.
But their men were driven from the azoteas by the overwhelming fire of the enemy, and after several hours of unavailing resistance both divisions were compelled to surrender.
Mother and son sat far into the night talking earnestly together, the mother daring not to leave him lest he should go she knew not whither, and finding her influence totally unavailing to turn him from what she considered his mad purpose.
But round each position so captured crowded thousands of the furious foe, rendered more furious still by the unavailing slaughter they had inflicted upon the invaders.
Do you still, in love's December, Still remember, still regret That sweet unavailing debt?
Thus speaking, the girl gave vent to her tears, which even the kind words of Rodrigo and his squire were unavailing to restrain.
But the impatience and hatred of the people were now inflamed to such a degree, that gentleness and severity were equally unavailing to preserve the tranquillity of the country.
Such is the substance of his famous but unavailing remonstrance.
The governor again bade him beware of what he was doing, as the licentiate was beyond a doubt still mad; but all his cautions and warnings were unavailing to dissuade the chaplain from taking him away.
But laying aside these useless and unavailing reflections, let us take up the broken thread of my unhappy story.
