But remembering his loss, he shook the rapier's point, and continued: "Thy taunts and effrontery will not avail thee, knave," he cried.

I know very well that this advantage will not avail them any thing to boast of, in the last great account; but it makes a surprising difference in the state of probation.

'Comfort, dear Madam, I would give you if I could, but I know how little the forms of consolation can avail.

ply, work, wield, handle, manipulate; play, play off; exert, exercise, practice, avail oneself of, profit by, resort to, have recourse to, recur to, take betake oneself to; take up with, take advantage of; lay one's hands on, try.

Again, in 'Simon Lee', the lines occur: But what to them avails the land Which he can till no longer?

But although Henry VIII himself was received in 1511 with pageantry and stayed at the Priory, royal favours and monastic hospitality availed neither men nor buildings when the Dissolution came.

Naught will avail her beauty, If she have not wit beside.

Laveneur, recollecting that the circumstance had happened in the absence of Custine, thought it incumbent on him to take the blame, if there were any, on himself, and wrote to Paris to explain the matter as it really stood; but his candour, without availing Custine, drew persecution on himself, and the only notice taken of his letter was an order to arrest him.

I am free to confess that spilling of blood would not have availed their cause.

Yet will not all this liberality avail our ministers, since it may be objected, that new forces might easily have been raised, and our own island have been, at once, defended, and the queen of Hungary assisted by our native troops.

Now, if there were laws in those states, the words of which granted to the life of the slave the same protection granted to that of the master, what would they avail?

What availed the struggles of the Waldenses in the Middle Ages?

What will avail vain complaints against the Republic, or what canst thou hope for, as their fruits, but evil to thyself, and evil to the child that thou lovest?" "I know not; but when the heart is sore the tongue will speak.

The success which has so eminently crowned this first experiment should encourage Congress to lose no time in availing the country of all the important benefits so obviously destined to flow from it.

Therefore he gathered the people of the village, and told them that he had uttered his mightiest spella spell having power over all that were human or of the tribes of the beasts; and that since it had not availed the dreams must come from Gaznak, the greatest magician among the spaces of the stars.

Yet from that depth, at one prodigious spring, Rakush escaped with Rustem on his back; But what availed that effort?

No threat to write a letter to the Times would avail an old-fashioned Englishman when his train was shunted for hours on to a side line to make way for troop trains, passing, passing, through the day and night.

Ships availing themselves of these winds, when, also, the westerly current ceases near the equator, might, by running away to the eastward in them, shorten the passage to either Ascension or St. Helena.) (**Footnote.

But what avails So small a force?

What then avails thee fruitless thus to rue His absence, whom the heavens cannot return?

what will avail all the glory I can acquire, if unsuccessful in my love!

What would have availed my father's judicious guidance, my brother's mild example, had not the soil been prepared by a mother's hand and watered by a mother's prayers?

It availed him not a hair, now, that he was a deacon, or that he had made long prayers in the market-places, where men could see him, or that he had done so much, as he was wont to proclaim, for example's sake.

Her distress was such that she took the only course which could have availed hershe was silent.

I die for hunger, what shall avail me mine inheritance if I die, and what shall profit me my patrimony?