Quotes About Unavailing

más inútil que un equipo para esquiar en Ecuador.

Hitting his enormous body was useless. I might as well have pounded a huge leather sack filled with wheat. So

Here would be a rock! And such a handsome man as he was, too, — not exactly a Corsair, as he was great in authority over the London police, — but a powerful, fine fellow, who would know what to do with swords and pistols as well as any Corsair; — and one, too, no doubt, who would understand poetry! Any such dream, however, was altogether unavailing, as the major had a wife at home and seven children.

there was nothing I could do for her, or for Miller either.