Of what avail are tears?

It is as important as book-keeping; for of what avail are money and business, if the home life is perilled?

Had she dared to offer him that which it was a disgrace to possess If such were the case, of what avail was all his teaching?

Of what avail is intimidation?

Of what avail are mournful fears, Foreboding sighs and idle tears, They hinder not the hurrying years; Buvons!

"And of what avail is our defence," said they, "when the enemy is determined to persist in the siege?what alternative remains but to surrender or to die?"

" There was a touching simplicity in Andy's faith, which went to the heart of Richard, making him feel of how little avail was knowledge or wisdom or position if there was lacking the one thing needful, which Andy so surely possessed.

He could not forget that if he still existed, it was simply from the circumstance that the minister had been unable to execute upon his person the violence which had been visited upon his effigy, and he accordingly replied: "Of what avail is a dukedom, since his Eminence is ever more ready to cut off the head of a peer than that of a citizen?"

Of what avail was all this wealth that was assaulting him on all sides as though it were going to crush him with its weight?...

Of what avail had been all the labour of her life with such a result? 'I hope you will think that I have done no more than my duty,' said Robert Bolton, offering her his hand.

Compared with these treatises of spiritual hygiene, of what avail were the evangelical pharmacopoeias? He did not claim to cure anything, and he offered no alleviation to the sick.

Of what, avail now were their worldly ambitions and their jealousies?

Of what avail is a mere piece of parchment?

PYLADES Of what avail is prudence, if it fail Heedful to mark the purposes of Heaven!

Of what avail is a necklace of pearls or a gown of gold against such X-ray vision, such intimate knowledge of one's past, of all one's physical, mental, and moral shortcomings?

when one comes to the verge of another world, of what avail are all things else, if we are not on the sure foundation?

But of what avail was this work-termination to her now?

"Of what avail is your beauty?" cried Don Isaac.

But little will that avail, for M'Connachie is a Queen Mary man.