Nor helm nor steersman here can aught avail; The storm is master.

Less doth warm water avail to bathe limbs for soothing than words of praise married to the music of the lyre.

Soon as the growling pack with eager joy Have lapped their smoking viands, morn or eve, From the full cistern lead the ductile streams, To wash thy court well-paved, nor spare thy pains, For much to health will cleanliness avail.

IPHIGENIA Here, nor his counsel nor command avails.

It will, I think, be expedient to confirm the collections thus made, and direct the avails (after such allowances as Congress may think fit to authorize) to be expended within the Territory or to be paid into the Treasury for the purpose of meeting appropriations for the improvement of its rivers and harbors.

You'll find candour avail you best in this case, depend upon it.

For what does foreshowing avail, if a thing shall certainly come to pass, and if there could be no averting of it either by human devices or by divine providence?

Nor can childish interference avail.

Mr. BRIDGEMAN'S gentle reminder that no Irish brewer need avail himself of the new regulations unless he pleases quite failed to satisfy the Nationalists that a new item had not been added to Ireland's catalogue of grievances.

"From the watch-tower I saw them sail, And pour'd forth prayersof no avail!

The fire upon his altars may burn dim, The torch he lighted may in darkness fail, And nothing to rekindle it avail, Yet high beyond his dull horizon's rim, Arcturus and the Pleiads beckon him.

The man, whoever he might be, was coming closer; he called out and Mr. Heatherbloom pushed and struggled more desperatelywithout avail!

But what could undisciplined bravery avail against the attack of an army skilled in all the arts of war and inspired by a long train of conquests?

He usually brought home the avails of his week's labor in provisions for the use of his family during the following week; but on one cold and stormy night, in the depth of winter, he went towards his humble dwelling with empty hands, but a full heart.