avails

Example Sentences

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Always fresh takkus and paying money to vakils and chaprassis and law-courts every five years, or else the landlord makes me go.

From The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling by Kipling, Rudyard

The munshis and the vakils and the runners had departed after seeing that the Englishman was safe for the night, so the freedom of the little gathering on the bund was unrestrained.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard

The housetops of his search should be half India; he would follow Kings and Ministers, as in the old days he had followed vakils and lawyers' touts across Lahore city for Mahbub Ali's sake.

From Kim by Kipling, Rudyard

The vakils are a very powerful class in the Deccan.

From Indian Unrest by Chirol, Valentine, Sir

He sat without any vakils appearing before him for either parties to arbitrate on the dispute between them.

From Freedom's Battle Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation by Gandhi, Mahatma