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Example sentences for "endeavour"

Lexicographically close words:
endears; endeavor; endeavored; endeavoring; endeavors; endeavoured; endeavoureth; endeavouring; endeavours; ended
  1. In 1810 Mrs. Clarke took up her pen to endeavour to prove that the Duke of York's fall was actually brought about by the successful ingenuity and masterly tactics of his brother the Duke of Kent.

  2. Will you endeavour to restrain your caprices, in order to give vigour to affection, and to give play to the checked sentiments that nature intended should expand your heart?

  3. Truth is the only basis of virtue; and we cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.

  4. Till I can earn money, I shall endeavour to borrow some, for I want to avoid asking him continually for the sum necessary to maintain me.

  5. But first, let me tell you, that, if you really wish to promote my happiness, you will endeavour to give me as much as you can of yourself.

  6. The amusement his conversation afforded me, made it easy to comply with my husband's request, to endeavour to render our house agreeable to him.

  7. I shall endeavour to procure what I want by my own exertions.

  8. Will you not endeavour to cherish all the affection you can for me?

  9. Oppressed by a dead weight of existence, or preyed on by the gnawing worm of discontent, with what eagerness did she endeavour to shorten the long days, which left no traces behind!

  10. It will be remembered that the Fifth and Second Divisions had both been instructed to endeavour to secure a crossing over the river.

  11. If the Beaurevoir line itself were captured, the attack was to be pushed on beyond, in the endeavour to sweep the enemy off the prominent hill on which was situated the village of Beaurevoir.

  12. He at once organized a party and moved to the left to endeavour to attack the enemy from the rear.

  13. So promising, indeed, was the prospect of the useful employment of cavalry, that I prevailed upon the Army Commander to endeavour to secure for my use a whole Cavalry Brigade.

  14. The whole day long the enemy expended Division after Division in the vain endeavour to compel two weak Australian Brigades to loosen their hold on the important high ground lying west of Albert.

  15. One section of riflemen would endeavour to sneak up depressions and ditches or along hedges, so as to get well behind the farm and threaten it by fire from the rear.

  16. At break of day on the 26th, after assuring myself that everyone was correctly on the move, I proceeded south by motor-car, in the endeavour to find the Tenth Corps Headquarters, and to report to them for orders.

  17. This can best be done, I think, by making an endeavour to realize the sense of security which the possession of such a line of defence must have afforded to the enemy.

  18. With blackboard and chalk, maps and diagrams, I had to speak for more than three hours in an endeavour to explain methods and reasons, mistakes and remedies, dangers and precautions, procedures and expedients.

  19. Let us therefore now endeavour to discover a principle for the resolving of this problem.

  20. Let us now endeavour to ascertain what may have been the power of water, acting under fixed circumstances, operating upon known substances, and conducting to a certain end.

  21. But, this is the very error into which mineral philosophers have fallen; and this is the subject which I am now to endeavour to illustrate.

  22. Why then does he endeavour to evade giving a direct answer, and fly away to consider the quantity of the product, as if that had any thing to do with, the question, or as if that quantity were not sufficient, neither of which is the case.

  23. I will therefore endeavour to give a short description of the mineral state of this country with regard to coal, so far as my experience and memory will serve.

  24. I begged that he would inquire of Mr Wright, at the Low-wood Inn, for those objects which he was to endeavour to procure for me, and to examine the limestone quarry in which I had found the specimen with entrochi.

  25. Let us now endeavour to make use of these generalizations and distinctions.

  26. Where the habit of mind has not been gained, the endeavour fluctuates and is relatively purposeless.

  27. Marlborough was forthwith sent from the Hague to the castle of Altranstadt near Leipzig, where Charles had fixed his headquarters, "to endeavour to penetrate the designs" of the king of Sweden.

  28. From it, as a habit of mind, springs the social and personal endeavour which in the widest sense we may call charity.

  29. In recent developments of charitable work the term "friendly visitor" is applied to persons who endeavour to help families in distress on the lines of associated charity.

  30. It seems also to exclude the motives for energy and endeavour that come from self-maintenance.

  31. For the old instinctive obedience to a command there is now an endeavour to find a reasoned basis for charitable action.

  32. In so far as it has been gained, the endeavour is founded on an intelligent scrutiny of social conditions and guided by a definite purpose.

  33. We are apt to ascribe to the strength of our reason, what is in reality the effect of one or other of the passions, sometimes even those of the worst kind, and which a sound judgment would most condemn, and endeavour to extirpate.

  34. But what sane man would endeavour to solve this problem: given the rules of a game and the winnings, to find whether the cards are made of pasteboard or goldleaf?

  35. Thus the last move of the labour party has been to urge the tenant-farmer to endeavour to become his own landlord.

  36. When there are a number of young children, and the parents endeavour to keep them decent, the woman works very hard indeed.

  37. The labourer, in fact, is not by any means such a fool as his own leaders endeavour to make him out.

  38. When they were passed he was the first to endeavour to carry them out and to save the village the cost and the possible quarrelling of a school board.

  39. Both together, by every possible method, endeavour to enlist popular sympathy against him.

  40. Many farmers' wives take much interest in such families, where there is an evident endeavour to go straight, and assist the women in various ways, as with cast-off clothing for the children.

  41. So it at first appeared to Mr. Pictet; but upon a little consideration he found that it afforded only an additional proof of the reflection of heat: this I shall endeavour to explain to you.

  42. This is a point on which we are yet so much in the dark, that I cannot hope fully to satisfy your curiosity; but what little I know on this subject, I will endeavour to explain to you.

  43. But we have dwelt so long on the subject of free caloric, that we must reserve the other modifications of that agent to our next meeting, when we shall endeavour to proceed more rapidly.

  44. It would be wiser, therefore, to endeavour to improve the situation of those who are engaged in manufactures, than to indulge in vain declamations on the hardships to which they are too frequently exposed.

  45. Thus I endeavour to break through the narrow limits of my native land.

  46. That reasoning could be grasped by all, and acted upon all as an added spur to endeavour in the days that followed.

  47. The 9th Division was to endeavour to cross the Menin-Roulers Road and capture Ledeghem, on the Menin-Roulers Railway.

  48. I have only to add that it has been my endeavour to make this History not a mere record of battles, but, so far as space has permitted, a picture of life as it was lived in the days of war.

  49. Bertie half resisted the stranger's endeavour to assist him in finding his feet, but the other managed so dexterously that Bertie found himself accompanying his new friend with a fair amount of willingness.

  50. His head was in a whirl; he was in such awe of his companion that he scarcely dared to move, far less to use his eyes in an endeavour to see where they were going.

  51. Had they, in their endeavour to escape from the murderer, concealed themselves?

  52. However the Judge might endeavour to disparage the danger to which he had exposed himself, I knew better.

  53. It is to be hoped, however, that everyone who goes out to shoot will endeavour to give them a fair chance of increasing by scrupulously refraining from shooting at any cow that may be met with.

  54. The stalker should always endeavour to get within a range of 80 yards, to ensure a vital shot at the shoulder.

  55. When wounded all these three beasts will endeavour to get into thick covert to hide themselves.

  56. Still I will endeavour to accomplish it, if not wholly, at any rate in part.

  57. But since many (men's) eyes endeavour at the same time to see one and the same picture produced by this artifice only one can see clearly the effect of this perspective and all the others will see confusion.

  58. Sometimes while they were resting Wagram would endeavour to instruct his companion by making drawings on the ground with a bit of stick, but hardly any of them were understood.

  59. Clearly his stewardship was his still, and, Heaven help him, he would endeavour to fulfil it to the utmost of his power, and would teach his son to do the same after him.

  60. I determined, therefore, to adopt another course, and endeavour if possible to trace the dark conspiracy to the fountain-head.

  61. From the pulpit, the clergy endeavour to uphold the sanctity of the institution, and unceasingly exhort their congregations to respect it and abide by its laws.

  62. Let me endeavour to convert these misguided wives, if any of them should deign to read this book.

  63. The spirit of contentment is an excellent influence in married life, since love is often killed by its own excessive demands, as I shall endeavour to show later.

  64. On this suggestion he instructed Robinson to inform Brand that if armed opposition should at once cease, the government "would thereupon endeavour to frame such a scheme as in their belief would satisfy all friends of the Transvaal community.

  65. On July 22, he said: "We should not fully discharge our duty, if we did not endeavour to convert the present interior state of Egypt from anarchy and conflict to peace and order.

  66. Then came the memorable appeal: "Apart from the term of whig and tory, there is one thing I will say and will endeavour to impress upon you, and it is this.

  67. His kindness would make him reluctant to decline; but he would come laden with an apprehension, that I by impetuosity and tenacity should endeavour to overbear him.

  68. Such was the end of Lord Granville's prudent and loyal endeavour to move in step with France.

  69. He had now within reach a guinea a day, and much besides, if he would endeavour to find any documents that might be available to sustain the charges made in the pamphlet.

  70. It was but a trifling action, but it made Dora feel happier than she had been before; it proved to herself that she was in earnest; and when she had made one endeavour it was much easier to make another.

  71. To-morrow," said Mrs Herbert, "I shall endeavour to persuade my sister to go and look once more upon that darling child.

  72. Colonel Herbert will look very blank if he returns to see the pale cheek she has now; for his sake, tell her she must endeavour to get strong.

  73. Miss Cunningham did not immediately perceive what was intended, but Hester did, and in her endeavour to be polite in contrast to her sister, contrived to make the meaning perfectly clear.

  74. Will you endeavour to think of this, dearest?

  75. But it would be for her good, my dear; and if I attempt to comfort her by proving that she has over-estimated one fault, I shall certainly endeavour to make her sorry for having thought so little of the other.

  76. A faint smile stole over the captain's face in spite of his endeavour to repress it.

  77. Bogey accordingly produced a crust from apparently a loaf of the week before last, but while doing so, Jack's sharp eyes detected that the nigger dropped some other eatable, in his hurried endeavour to ram it into his pockets unseen.

  78. This very morning, I was thinking I would make a change, and endeavour to live like other people; but then I fancied it would be of no use.

  79. These observations being premised, I shall proceed to explain the present state of Gaelic Orthography, and shall endeavour to assist the reader in forming a judgment of its merit, and how far it may admit of improvement.

  80. Some will be disposed to deride the vain endeavour to restore vigour to a decaying superannuated language.


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