Attempting

Examples

• Here, again, he disarmed me by not attempting to defend himself. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I am attempting to suggest some of the essentials of a statesman's equipment for the work of a humanly centered politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In attempting to prove that the soul has three separate faculties, Plato takes occasion to discuss what makes difference of faculties. Plato. The Republic.
• There's no use attempting the impossible. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I think either of these methods is preferable to attempting to carry ensilage in baskets any distance. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Elizabeth made no answer; and without attempting to persuade her ladyship to return into the house, walked quietly into it herself. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The army it had to fight was the protection to the capital of a people which was attempting to found a nation upon the territory of the United States. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She appeared to be cross-questioning me, attempting to draw from me information unawares. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• At nine the next morning I rang my bell, being quite worn out with attempting it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Here the whole army concentrated before attempting to cross. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There was a cow-dung in the path, and I must need try my activity by attempting to leap over it. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• And then she told him all--told him the truth word by word, without attempting to shield herself or condone her error. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Elinor perceived with alarm that she was not quite herself, and, while attempting to soothe her, eagerly felt her pulse. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Just as forlorn and stupefied as I was when my husband's spirit flew away I have sat ever since--never attempting to mend matters at all. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Tolerable sport the first three days, but there has been no attempting anything since. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• It's perfectly useless, my Lord, attempting to get at any evidence through the impenetrable stupidity of this witness. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He had deposed and murdered his father Chosroes II, and he was attempting to reorganize the Persian military forces. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Attempting once to scold her in public, Rebecca hit upon the before-mentioned plan of answering her in French, which quite routed the old woman. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It was as though she were attempting to read my inmost soul, to judge my character and my standards of chivalry in that long-drawn, searching gaze. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• At the same time, I suspect him of merely attempting to frighten you, by threatening what he cannot really do. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• For it is Theodore Roosevelt who is actually attempting to make himself and his admirers the heroes of a new social myth. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• St. John called me to his side to read; in attempting to do this my voice failed me: words were lost in sobs. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Well, that did not prevent them from attempting to shoot him in his own house. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We should not approach his meaning more nearly by attempting to define it further. Plato. The Republic.
• Then it became evident to Xerxes, watching the combat, that his fleet was attempting flight. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And as to laughter, we will not expose ourselves, if you please, by attempting to laugh without a subject. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It was doubtless from some sad experience in ignorantly attempting to put fetters on it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Perhaps even now she was attempting to defend herself against some savage man or beast. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• They were attempting about this time to raise it still further, to twelve and a-half per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Ridicule was heaped upon him in the public prints, and mathematics were called into service by learned men to settle the point forever that he was attempting the utterly impossible. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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