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Examples
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Where even their fierce despair might nought avail,
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Where even their fierce despair might nought avail,
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For having thus attracted me or else I'd not avail,
The Cuckoo's Nest 1995
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Machynlleth and along the shores of Merionethshire to Portmadoc, the port of shipment of the Festiniog slate traffic, and eventually to continue, through Pwllheli to that wonderful prospective harbour, upon which the eyes of railway promoters had already been turned without avail,
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Naught could his sev'nfold shield the prince avail,
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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Prayers and entreaties to remove the whiskers being of no avail,
The Magic Pudding Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff Norman Lindsay 1924
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And he knows his task is mighty and that words will not avail,
Over Here 1920
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But oer-anxious thought, youll find of no avail,
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On the instant, aware that further subterfuge could be of no avail,
Within the Law Bayard Veiller 1906
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Where even their fierce despair might nought avail,
The Revolt of Islam 1901
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