Sidenote: The failure of Mr. Clay's first attempt.
Sidenote: First attempt to try the validity of the Tariff in the United States courts.
It has less the appearance of notes or fragments prepared by Rabelais than of a first attempt at revision.
He could not have reached this perfection at a first attempt.
As I am, fortunately, possessed of a fair share of this open-air sense, it was little handicap to me to be alone on my first attempt.
Once, during my first attempt, I got caught on Dutch soil by the Germans,” I remarked in the course of the conversation.
I thanked him for his attentions, left my compliments for Ismail, and went away not dissatisfied with my first attempt, and with the hope of being more fortunate another time.
She made no opposition, and I was well pleased with what I had got; and for a first attempt I could not well expect more.
Dom Pedro's first attempt to suppress the liberal leaders was foiled by the Assembly.
Thus miserably ended Prussia's first attempt to exclude Austria from the affairs of Germany.
Even in Spain, where a first attempt at revolution had easily been crushed at Madrid, Don Carlos deemed the time ripe to join Cabrera's revolutionary rising in Catalonia.
It, however, answered the purpose for which it was intended, and I can assure the reader I felt not a little proud of this, my first attempt at canoe-making.
It was my first attempt, and, certainly the thing looked more like a hog- trough than a boat.
My first attempt at driving oxen was accompanied by an unfortunate accident, which gave me some trouble and mortification.
On this my first attemptat a serial story, I thought it fit to break my own rule.
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