As they looked his head beat the ground again unavailingly, and at the piteous sight a dry sob broke from Norah, and she went on her knees by him. ❋ Unknown (1911)
So England watches trade slipping through her fingers and wails unavailingly. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Corliss asked, unavailingly, for the fourth time after he had got into his cabin. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I knew the door was unbolted; though it was fitted with brackets for a bolt, I had searched unavailingly for the bolt itself before retiring. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And there is fine work from Ian McElhinney, strangely resembling Bergman himself, as Karin's semi-detached father; from Justin Salinger, as her unavailingly devoted husband; and from Dimitri Leonidas as her sexually tormented brother. ❋ Unknown (2010)
For the next four hours, he sat there unavailingly, emanating gloom and rage. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Clennam tried to do honour to the meal, but unavailingly. ❋ Unknown (2007)
There had once been a water – mill beneath; the tide foaming and chafing round the few rotten stakes, and fragments of machinery that yet remained, seemed to dart onward, with a new impulse, when freed from the obstacles which had unavailingly attempted to stem its headlong course. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Some indeed had attempted quite unavailingly to convince her that Rome was not nearly such a desirable place as it was reported to be, and others had gone so far as to suggest behind her back that she was dreadfully “stuck up” about “that Rome of hers.” ❋ Herbert George (2006)
Thus the unhappy pair unavailingly recriminated, till my cousin ❋ Unknown (2006)
Our twenty heavy guns subsided into the morass, and our poor abused and beaten mules struggled unavailingly to extract them. ❋ De Bernieres, Louis (2003)
Edgar Caswall tortured his brain for a long time unavailingly, to think of some means of getting rid of what he, as well as his neighbours, had come to regard as a plague of birds. ❋ Unknown (2003)
One night, because of two swift bangs down-stairs, which Anthony fearfully but unavailingly investigated, they lay awake nearly until dawn asking each other examination-paper questions about the history of the world. ❋ Unknown (2003)
For in spite of the fact that I did not know her, she would turn round to look at me, would wait for me, unavailingly, before shop windows, smile at me as though she were going to kiss me, make gestures indicative of a complete surrender. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Just occasionally, perhaps, we should have the humility to see the awfulness of the world that they inhabit, and which they strive so unavailingly to control. ❋ Laban (2003)
In this state, the voice of the preacher thundered remorselessly, but unavailingly, upon her ears. ❋ Unknown (2002)
The three witches, Vivien, Joyce and Alicia, each with a nice divorce settlement agreed in less sparkling days, unavailingly consulted their lawyers. ❋ Francis, Dick (1987)
She had cast about unavailingly, finding no trace. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1985)
If we do not take advantage of the time, if we show ourselves unequal to the occasion, it may never return, and we shall hereafter bitterly and unavailingly regret having failed to embrace the happy opportunity now offered ... ❋ Unknown (1981)
