Endeavoring

Examples

• On the 30th I found that Van Dorn was apparently endeavoring to strike the Mississippi River above Memphis. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The associate in this was a man whom he had found endeavoring to make electrical apparatus for sleight-of-hand performances. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• As Graham Wallas is endeavoring to make human nature the center of politics, so James made it the center of religions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In endeavoring to please them I slaved over that sketch for two hours, and had my labor for my pains. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Jay Gould at that time controlled the Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Company, and was competing with the Western Union and endeavoring to depress Western Union stock on the Exchange. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I used sometimes to hear my mother reasoning cases with him,--endeavoring to excite his sympathies. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I have a dim recollection of a group of officials who crowded round me, endeavoring to soothe me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• These infringers sought to break his patent by endeavoring to prove, but without success, that Howe’s invention was anticipated by the abandoned experiments of Walter Hunt in 1834. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I was resisting the soft influences of the climate as well as I could, and endeavoring to overcome the desire to be indolent and happy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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