Striven
['strivn]
Definition
(p. p.) of Strive
(-) p. p. of Strive.
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Examples
- To-day he has striven to kill before my face the only other living creature that ever showed me kindness. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Like ethical insight, or spiritual illumination , the scientific idea comes to those who have striven for it. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I have striven long to avoid exposure, and I should not like it to come at last. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- We have striven hard to learn. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If so, he had striven to save the son, who came in defiance of the law to attend his mother's death-bed. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- That we should govern justly and that all should participate in the benefits according as they have striven for them. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He had lived and striven with his fellow owners to benefit the men every time. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I have striven in vain to extinguish it. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- They trailed home by the fish-ponds, and Hermione told them about the quarrel of two male swans, who had striven for the love of the one lady. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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