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Example sentences for "endeavored"

Lexicographically close words:
endearing; endearment; endearments; endears; endeavor; endeavoring; endeavors; endeavour; endeavoured; endeavoureth
  1. The father's unexpected appearance dismayed the young ladies, who colored deeply while they endeavored to hide the miniature effigy of the Sultan.

  2. He endeavored to bring Michael Angelo's apostles and prophets, with their superhuman ponderousness of intention, into the common-places of modern life.

  3. Conscious of not having all the strength he wished, he endeavored to make out for it by violence and pretension.

  4. The Pere quickly saw what passed in my mind, and endeavored to depict the life of the monastery as a delicious existence, embellished by all the graces of literature, and adorned by the pleasures of intellectual converse.

  5. David, with a stout heart, endeavored to cheer them.

  6. Little Nancy began to cry, and the three taking hold of each other, endeavored in silence to make their way homeward.

  7. They endeavored to do this; but the darkness was now redoubled, and the wind and rain became more furious than ever.

  8. The reader will remember that, when Lord Kelvin endeavored to make theosophic capital out of this temporary confusion in German science, he was immediately silenced by the leading biologists of this country, Professor E.

  9. I endeavored in 1896 to establish it in detail, in relation to paleontological discoveries, in the essay I have mentioned.

  10. I endeavored in my Generelle Morphologie(1866) to draw the attention of biologists to these simplest and lowest organisms which have no visible organization or composition from different organs.

  11. However, I have endeavored to prove, in the tenth chapter of the Riddle, that consciousness itself is only a special form of nervous energy, and Ostwald has lately developed the theory in his Natural Philosophy.

  12. I also endeavored to prove that such cytodes still exist in the form of independent monera, and in 1870 I described in my Monograph on the Monera a number of protists which do not tally with the above definition.

  13. He endeavored to meet it by his theory of antinomies, declaring that pure reason is bound to land in contradictions when it attempts to conceive the whole scheme of things as a connected totality.

  14. I endeavored to establish these theses conclusively in the first book of the Generelle Morphologie, which contains (p.

  15. I also laid stress on the mechanical character of these sciences, and endeavored to give a physiological explanation of their morphological phenomena.

  16. The idea was generally received, and Louis Dumas endeavored thoroughly to establish it at the beginning of the nineteenth century (cf.

  17. About the great stove they hovered, scorching their faces, while they endeavored to get thoroughly warmed before the hands of the clock should point to nine.

  18. Their chief men have for a great while endeavored to engraft teetotalism upon their national medicine, and have succeeded better than the Indian character would have seemed to promise.

  19. Those, however, who endeavored to scale the parapet were swept away by the fire of our musketry.

  20. From this position the enemy endeavored to force us.

  21. At least," and I endeavored to speak with proper emphasis, "you hear the truth when I say that I anticipate much pleasure as well as renewed health, in Benton.

  22. So I decided to write instead of telegraph; and with him watching me I endeavored to speak lightly.

  23. It does not appear to have been known to Scott, Brewster, or any other English writer who has collected and endeavored to expound those ghostly phenomena.

  24. On opening the scuttle, volumes of smoke were emitted, and finding it impossible to extinguish the fire, the crew endeavored to stifle it by closing every aperture.

  25. I endeavored to emulate this activity, and to make myself as ubiquitous as the nature of the place, which is built on an ascent, and my own nature, which is not adapted to ascents, would allow me.

  26. Unfortunately for himself, he endeavored to increase the amount of his property by speculating.

  27. His parents, however, endeavored to check his taste for poetry, his father probably thinking it would unfit him for the denomination to which he belonged.

  28. We have endeavored to picture Des Cartes as the founder of the deductive method, as having the foundation-stone of all his reasoning in his consciousness.

  29. Many men have written against it; of these some have misunderstood, some have misrepresented, some have failed, and few have left us a proof that they had endeavored to deal with Spinoza on his own ground.

  30. Your Lordships have seen, amongst the various pretences by which this man has endeavored to justify his various delinquencies, that of fearing to offend the Nabob by the restoration of their jaghires to the Begums is one.

  31. Mr. Hastings has confessed the fact; and Mr. Middleton has endeavored to slur it over, but could not completely conceal it.

  32. He never attempted to detect any one single abuse whatever; he never endeavored once to put a stop to any corruption in any man, black or white, in any way whatever.

  33. I must inform your Lordships, that, upon some of our other exactions at an earlier period, the Nabob had endeavored to levy a forced loan upon the jaghiredars.

  34. I then extinguished my wax taper, and endeavored to slumber for a few moments, which were in general very short.

  35. Luxembourg, who endeavored to dissuade me from it; I mentioned it to him a second time as a thing resolved upon.

  36. The fire was made so hot that the men who endeavored to cast Abraham and Haran into the flames were caught and burned to death.

  37. The officials were surprised, for, as a rule, people endeavored to avoid paying the duties.

  38. The greatest alarm had prevailed among the inhabitants lest they should suffer violence from the English Indians, and Vaudreuil had endeavored to provide that these dangerous enemies should be sent back at once to their villages.

  39. So perfect was the synthesis that a dog in the lecture room barked and endeavored to chase the phantom horses as they galloped across the screen.

  40. Several phases of as many different movements had been photographed, which the Author endeavored with little success to arrange in consecutive order for the construction of a complete stride.

  41. Alexander Wilson, the pioneer American ornithologist, was the man who seriously endeavored to estimate by computations the total number of passenger pigeons in one flock that was seen by him.

  42. At the instant when Beckett-Smythe lowered his head and endeavored to butt Martin violently in the stomach, the latter felt the obstruction with his heel.

  43. Kitty endeavored to arouse her sister from the condition of stupor in which she remained, and the girl's mother placed an arm around her shoulders.

  44. Pickering endeavored to raise himself in the bed, but sank back with a groan.

  45. Here they were joined by the Beckett-Smythes, who endeavored promptly to assume the leadership.

  46. This man Fred, I believe, endeavored to pay attentions to Kitty, which she always refused to encourage.

  47. In his anger he felt that he could wrench the wretched beast limb from limb, and he might have endeavored to do that very thing were it not for the presence of Elsie Herbert.

  48. Is it not the fact that you have endeavored consistently to keep her name out of the affair altogether?

  49. And the neighbor took Madame F---- by the arm, and endeavored to pull her along.

  50. His widow, after his Majesty's return to Paris, had often, but always in vain, endeavored to present a petition to his Majesty describing her unfortunate condition.

  51. It was not only by force of arms that the enemies of France endeavored at the end of 1813 to overthrow the power of the Emperor.

  52. She then withdrew, leaning on the arm of Queen Hortense; and Prince Eugene endeavored to retire at the same moment through the cabinet, but his strength failed, and he fell insensible between the two doors.

  53. Nothing could be more monotonous or depressing than this continual murmur, this lugubrious mingling of voices all in the same tone, especially as those making these cries endeavored to make them as inspiring as possible.

  54. This same night we had with us a young Parisian belonging to a very wealthy family, who had endeavored to obtain employment in the Emperor's household.

  55. On their arrival at Mayence, the custom-house officers endeavored to perform their duty, and consequently inspected the chests of the Guard and those of the general.

  56. That the propositions we have endeavored to establish have a direct bearing in various ways upon the qualifications of whoever undertakes to edit the works of Shakspeare will, we think, be apparent to those who consider the matter.

  57. Yes, indeed, and for the anxiety with which I have endeavored to impress virtue and affection upon their young minds.

  58. Her mother hopped to her side, and endeavored to remove a long piece of worsted thread, which was woven into the nest, and was now firmly twisted about Molly's leg.

  59. Some few endeavored to leave the crater and run back, but they were immediately shot down.

  60. We now endeavored to cross the river so as to join the main army, from which we had been separated by the break in the lines that morning.

  61. They came up at a gallop and endeavored to take position on a slight elevation, in the skirt of pines, immediately in rear of our regiment.

  62. They made daily practice on our works, and endeavored to batter down and destroy the buildings in the village.

  63. The men then endeavored to run the guns forward by hand, when nearly all the men were killed or wounded.

  64. Such was the reputation which the vanquished magnates in general, and their followers, endeavored to fix upon the young subverter of their ascendency.

  65. As by the state of her health she was deprived of many enjoyments, her indulgent parents endeavored to compensate for every loss by their affection and devotion.

  66. The lady who had endeavored to give voice to my poor friend's scheme came, later in the day, to see him.

  67. Some eminent Liberals, Mr. Bright among the rest, endeavored to obtain a mitigation of the sentence.

  68. Lord Acton not many years ago started the "Home and Foreign Review," a quarterly periodical which endeavored to reconcile Catholicism with liberalism and science.

  69. I endeavored to dissuade him (he had brought some introductions to me).

  70. My wife endeavored to console or encourage her, but the girl could only sob and protest that she never could learn to endure the place, but that she could not get away, and that she would rather be in her grave.

  71. Out of this merciless onslaught on Kingsley came the "Apologia pro Vita sua," in which Newman endeavored to vindicate and glorify, not excuse or apologize for, his strange secession.

  72. But he certainly took a meek tone and endeavored to propitiate, and got rather coarsely rebuked for his pains.

  73. Auguste Comte has been an influence because he endeavored to construct as well as to destroy.

  74. Thus it was that he endeavored to rouse up the English public, who except for the extreme democracy always have had a strong hankering for the Austrian Government, to a sense of the crimes of the House of Hapsburg against its subjects.

  75. I think, from something I heard him say once, that Mazzini had endeavored to enlighten him as to the true state of affairs in England, and the real value of the sort of sympathy which London so readily offers to any interesting exile.

  76. In more than one instance the murder of Prim was treated as a sort of thing which, however painful to read of, was yet quite natural and even excusable in the case of a man who endeavored to give his country a King.

  77. He endeavored gratuitously and absurdly to convict Dr.

  78. Aladdin endeavored to raise Peter in his arms, but was not strong enough.

  79. A figure in gray leaped the stone wall and ran out to him, stooped, and seizing the staff of the flag in both hands, braced his hands and endeavored to draw it from beneath the great body of the hero.

  80. His old trouble having reappeared with more than its former violence and persistency, he was placed on the retired list, and endeavored to regain his health, but with only temporary success.

  81. While they gave their leisure to studying parts and rehearsing them, we organized prayer meetings, a choir, and endeavored in various ways to perfect ourselves as soldiers and men.

  82. She has never seen Auburn, and during the weeks whose history as it shaped itself in my brain I have endeavored to relate, was living at her home in Oakland, wondering where her lover was and why he did not write.

  83. I recalled the death of my parents and endeavored to fix my mind upon the last sad scenes at their bedsides and their graves.


  84. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "endeavored" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.