Attempted

Examples

• The tears did not glisten there, as they did in Leinster's; but they fell in torrents as he attempted to take leave of me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I attempted to gain time--nay, I did worse. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Every time I attempted to start, my new horse would commence to kick. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• If anyone says that I attempted to stop your marriage by any but honest means, that person, too, does not speak the truth. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Gigantic attempted Robbery. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The Christians lost Jerusalem again in 1244; it was taken from them very easily by the Sultan of Egypt when they attempted an intrigue against him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Something of the same kind was afterwards attempted in morals. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In what state the affair stood at present between them, Edward knew not, for no communication with any of his family had yet been attempted by him. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I rose to take leave of him; and attempted to express the grateful sense of his kindness which I really felt. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• When Parliament refused supplies, he demanded loans from various subjects, and attempted similar illegal exactions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Never by word or deed have you attempted to take advantage of my defenceless condition to insult or torture me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• To have attempted to dive below her would have put us entirely at her mercy, and precisely where she wanted us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The management beg leave to offer to the public an entertainment surpassing in magnificence any thing that has heretofore been attempted on any stage. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Happily she never attempted to joke, and this perhaps was the most decisive mark of her cleverness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The latter attempted to rush in and break up the formation, but it was like stopping a buzz saw with the bare hand. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• In the Roman state it was not even attempted. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The king took a high line, and attempted to disperse the Third Estate by force. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Mrs. Yeobright attempted to drink, but it was so warm as to give her nausea, and she threw it away. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I attempted to approach her--I was shocked and grieved, but, it is needless to say, not offended. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The imitation of the action of horses' hoofs was one of the means attempted, but such additional aids were eventually found to be of no avail, and were discontinued. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• I have attempted to make my poor friend's loss of memory the means of bettering my acquaintance with you. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Mrs. Dashwood again assured him that no alteration of the kind should be attempted. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• As late as 1786 improvements were being attempted in England on this old Gallic machine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Once I had a spill in France when I attempted it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It was the very house they had attempted to rob. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• If I had had the least idea of what it contained I should certainly not have attempted to open it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And I even attempted, more than once, for my own private satisfaction, to employ his methods in their solution, though with indifferent success. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Seven days ago, after her audience with Zat Arras, Dejah Thoris attempted to slip from the palace in the dead of night. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The generals in command of the Rhine legions, the Palatine troops, and the eastern armies, each attempted to seize power. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Notwithstanding the edict of 1766, by which the French king attempted to reduce the rate of interest from five to four per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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