| 1. | The Dominicans endeavoured to preach down the lending-house, but without avail.
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| 2. | Legislation and popular feeling were aimed at it, but without avail.
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| 3. | In subsequent years Van Boeyen kept trying, but without avail.
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| 4. | In a fit of anger, Potocki fired at his driver three times, all without avail.
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| 5. | Therefore, Nick and Loretta attempt to retrieve custody of one of Carla's children without avail.
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| 6. | Cheers gang try to undo the damage without avail.
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| 7. | Henry often attempts to be comical or witty without avail, which is amusing in its own right.
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| 8. | They have been denounced in pastorals, exposed in the Press, and condemned by clergy, judges and justices, without avail.
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| 9. | Therefore, she works as a temporary waitress and then tries to flirt with the bartender Sam Malone repeatedly without avail.
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| 10. | The flashback ends with Devi trying to explain to Tenna in a complex way what she is experiencing without avail.
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