unavailing
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Unavailing, he advanced on the library with a burly "Red squad" of policemen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unavailing was the argument of the Senate economizers that there was plenty of logic in the measure: only the department involved could know enough about itself to know where it could economize.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unavailing was all their tenderness, and fruitless every attempt at consolation.
From Lha Dhu; Or, The Dark Day The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by Carleton, William
Unavailing regret and red-nosed remorse inhabit the cot of the tie-chopper as well as the cut-glass cage of the millionaire.
From Remarks by Nye, Bill
Unavailing, however, was the caution; and immaterial alike the prudence or the indiscretion of Flora: Juliet had no sooner crossed the first style, than she perceived Sir Lyell Sycamore sauntering in the meadow.
From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny
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