Entreaty, remonstrance, the assumption of hurt and injured tones, were alike unavailing.

The sagacity of Thomas Smythe and the idealism of Edwin Sandys were alike unavailing.

Bribes and threats were alike unavailing to make the old Breton woman open her mouth.

Their shrieks and efforts to flee were alike unavailing.

Argument and oratory were alike unavailing under a constitution which was indeed a despotism of privilege.

All the arguments advanced were alike unavailing.

Prayers and threats were alike unavailing.

Resistance and flight were alike unavailing.

Steinmetz knew of the mental barrier within this Anglo-Russian soul, against which prayer and argument were alike unavailing.

Threats, expostulations, entreaties are alike unavailing.

Threats and promises of rewards were alike unavailing, but Tom and his employers knew well enough who it was.

All his efforts were alike unavailing and a great fear now welled up in the heart of the troubled boy.

The supplications of ambassadors, the protests of individuals, the arguments of statesmen, were alike unavailing to stop the torrent of despotism and injustice.

Alike unavailing to convince them is the fact that they have never detected a man of us in any attempt to disturb them.