Availed

Examples

• Bois-Guilbert made an effort to suppress his rising scorn and indignation, the expression of which, he was well aware, would have little availed him. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Oliver availed himself of the kind permission, and fell to the floor in a fainting fit. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I availed myself of your obliging hints to correct my timidity, and it is unnecessary to add that they were perfectly accurate. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• This afternoon I came through it, and found you asleep in classe; again this evening I have availed myself of the same entrance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• These recommendations, however, availed nothing with Mr. Fairlie. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Really he would have been an uncommon, instead of a common, fellow, if he had not availed himself of such an opportunity. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• This was the substance of Mr. Sidney's defence: but neither law, nor reason, nor eloquence, nor innocence ever availed where _Jefferies_ sat as judge. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• When James determined to kidnap Lord Saltire, it was of this man's service that he availed himself. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• All the discretion, all the experience, which had availed me with other women, and secured me against other temptations, failed me with her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But what availed his expressions or his air? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The fact that a vacuum may be created in a pump into which water will rise by atmospheric pressure appears to have been availed of but not explained or understood. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Like Cortez in Mexico, he availed himself of the native dissensions to secure possession of the doomed state. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• All of the technical, expert, and professional skill and knowledge that money could procure or experience devise were availed of in the bitter fights that raged in the courts for many years. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Having availed herself of it, she resumed her toast and her discourse together. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• This action availed to draw attention and check noise. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• What availed the noise and bustle of cheerful morning, which penetrated even there, to him? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He availed himself of his enlargement to throw himself on the pavement, and clasp the knees of Front-de-Boeuf. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

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