Endeavored

Examples

• We have endeavored here to embody all the answers to questions that we suppose may be asked. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• In vain I endeavored to interest him in Afghanistan, in India, in social questions, in anything which might take his mind out of the groove. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• To get at this, I endeavored first of all to solve the reason of the original burglary at Mr. Acton's. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I endeavored to sell my lighting patents in different countries of Europe, and made a contract with a couple of men. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Again no Martian interfered with me, and tearing a piece of silk from my cape I endeavored to staunch the flow of blood from her nostrils. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• On the 4th and 5th Sherman endeavored to get upon the railroad to our right, where Schofield was in command, but these attempts failed utterly. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She has endeavored to show it fairly, in its best and its worst phases. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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