Endeavour

Examples

• Unable to rest or sleep, she quitted her asylum early, that she might again endeavour to find my brother. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I am induced by what you said just now, said I, to hope that you have succeeded in your endeavour. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I might, perhaps, wish to be informed why, with so little _endeavour_ at civility, I am thus rejected. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• We will endeavour to do our duty by her, and she will, at least, have the advantage of companions of her own age, and of a regular instructress. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I only doubted whether or not I should endeavour to see Idris again, before I departed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This was thrown out, and so too was a sentence about the British: we must endeavour to forget our former love for them . H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I will endeavour to take care, sir. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• My affections are wounded; it is impossible to heal them:--cease then the vain endeavour, if indeed that way your endeavours tend. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The teachers, animated solely by good intentions, had no idea of execution, and a lamentable jumble was the upshot of their kind endeavours. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I do my endeavours in my line of life, sir. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• These discoveries were made by Scheele in his endeavours to find in light the source of phlogiston--that _ignis fatuus_ of the chemists of the last century. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Every man endeavours to supply, by his own industry, his own occasional wants, as they occur. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I related my adventures of the night, my endeavours to find our lost one, and my disappointment. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Each turns her towards his companion, or endeavours to intercept her when his companion turns her towards himself. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Clara, though she endeavoured to give herself up to his amusement, often forgot him, as she turned to observe Adrian and me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• For a year or more I had endeavoured to find a satisfactory answer to her often-repeated question, 'What I would like to be? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I shut my eyes involuntarily, and endeavoured to recollect what were my duties with regard to this destroyer. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• We endeavoured in vain to abstract Clara from this deplorable scene. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• In a few minutes after, I heard the creaking of my door, as if some one endeavoured to open it softly. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Other writers, of a different stamp, with great learning and gravity, endeavoured to prove to the English people that slavery was _jure divino_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Carez, a printer of Toul, who, in 1791, endeavoured to obtain casts in lead from a page of type, by allowing it to drop on the fused metal when it was in a state of setting. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• You are endeavouring to disarm me by reason, and to convince me against my will. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I, at least, was taken up with endeavouring to soothe Fifine; whose cries (for she had good lungs) were appalling to hear. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The reader must keep in mind that we are endeavouring to give him plain statements that he can take hold of comfortably. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I continued walking in this manner for some time, endeavouring, by bodily exercise, to ease the load that weighed upon my mind. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The dog is let loose at night to prevent him from endeavouring to communicate with her. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Then, in endeavouring to do violence to my own disposition, I made all worse than before. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Merely to the illustration of _your_ character, said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

Editor: Roxanne