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Example sentences for "vain attempted"

  • They were supposed to originate from worms, and had been in vain attempted to be removed by vermifuge purges.

  • During the following night, Beningsen, urged on by the ardent Wilson, in vain attempted to animate the old Russian.

  • The column, entangled in this narrow passage, in vain attempted to retrograde.

  • The troops demanded to be led towards the Turkish territory, and Walter the Penniless, having in vain attempted to restrain their impatience, placed himself at their head.

  • Having in vain attempted to corrupt the garrison with gold, the king laid siege to the castle with his whole army.

  • But such was the utter confusion and dismay of the whole army, and such the horrid din of clashing arms, and the yet more horrid yells of the savage foe, that he in vain attempted either to direct or encourage his men.

  • The captain in vain attempted to get a shot at the animal's head; he knew that a wound in any other part of the body would produce no effect.

  • The boat had got to the outer end of the reef, when so heavy a squall met her that the crew, though exerting all their strength, in vain attempted to pull against it.

  • We thus in vain attempted to pull back to the ship, and found ourselves every instant increasing our distance from her.

  • Otway's regiment was instantly ordered to advance from the body of the reserve, and sustain the right wing, which the enemy twice in vain attempted to penetrate.

  • Meanwhile, the cavalry on the right in vain attempted to penetrate the wood on the other side, where the enemy had raised two batteries, which were sustained by forty squadrons of horse.

  • The Mogul emperors, in the time of their greatness, had in vain attempted to introduce into Hindostan the goat of the table-land of Thibet, whose down supplies the looms of Cashmere with the materials of the finest shawls.

  • The Settlements they in vain attempted to make in those Countries; with a Description of an extraordinary Phaenomenon.

  • The Settlements they in vain attempted to make in those Countries; with a Description of an extraordinary Phaenomenon CHAP.

  • Lucien Buonaparte, the president, in vain attempted to restore order: the moderate orators of the council, with equal ill success, endeavoured to gain a hearing.

  • On the 30th, Macdonald in vain attempted to convince him that the fate of Paris must have been decided ere he could reach it, and advised him to march without further delay so as to form a conjunction with Augereau.

  • It was in vain attempted to excite popular enthusiasm.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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