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We worked all night in an attempt to finish on time, but it was all in vain.
Great pains but all in vain.
Frequently did the Cyprians endeavour to free themselves from bonds which pinioned the arms of industry, but all in vain; the island seemed to have settled109 down into that slow decay, which was the fate of all the Byzantine provinces.
Next in order, I took the platform and, speaking as a physician, I said: It will be all in vain for you to reform the methods of moral education in our schools, if you do not bear in mind that certain individuals exist, who are the very ones capable of committing such unspeakable deeds, and who pass through school without ever once being influenced in any manner by education.
But haste was all in vain.
I answered as loud as I could in several languages, and he often laid his ear within two yards of me: but all in vain, for we were wholly unintelligible to each other.
The nurse, to quiet her babe, made use of a rattle which was a kind of hollow vessel filled with great stones, and fastened by a cable to the child’s waist: but all in vain; so that she was forced to apply the last remedy by giving it suck.
" Yes, he had been trying to comfort himself with these suppositions: but he had found all in vain.
All in vain; because Death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim.
The search was all in vain.
Kitty tried in every possible way to relieve him, to soothe him; but it was all in vain, and Levin saw that she herself was exhausted both physically and morally, though she would not admit it.
Whose death, though life, we rue and wrong, and all in vain do moan,Their loss, not him, wail they that fill the world with cries,Death slew not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.
Had tried many kinds of patent medicines-many doctors, all in vain.
I was placed under the treatment of a good physician who did all in his power to restore my health, but all in vain.
"They enter any private house, or abbey that they choose, Where meat and drink and all things else are given as their dues, And after dinner jewels too, or this were all in vain, Bedels and garçons must receive, and all that form the train.
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