Striving

Examples

• Her lover was no longer to her an exciting man whom many women strove for, and herself could only retain by striving with them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• You are all striving for money. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It appeared to be something interesting, for every one was pushing and striving to get nearer. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You are not striving to look taller than any body else. Jane Austen. Emma.
• They were striving for greater freedom in nature and society. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Tarzan took to the trees in pursuit, and in a few moments came in view of the men desperately striving to escape. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• All Meryton seemed striving to blacken the man who, but three months before, had been almost an angel of light. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• His old housekeeper is the first to understand that he is striving to uphold the fiction with himself that it is not growing late. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The inventor was striving to simplify the machine, but to what extent it had been used or had been improved, or what finally became of it, does not appear. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The men who in former times had been falling back, were now, as I have already stated, striving to get to the front. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• So Arthur resumed the long and hopeless labour of striving to make way with the Circumlocution Office. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Everybody is striving for what is not worth the having! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The poles unite, the zones agree, The tongues of striving cease; As on the Sea of Galilee, The Christ is whispering, Peace! Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But the course of civilization has been marked by an artificial lengthening of the day, and by a constant striving after more perfect means of illumination. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• What an ironical comment of Fate on the strivings of great beings to subordinate the senses to the soul. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He thought of everybody's claims and strivings, but his own. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

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