Endeavoured

Examples

• 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.
• Louis endeavoured, and the Young Person endeavoured. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• They instantly carried it to the cottage of an old woman near the spot, and endeavoured, but in vain, to restore it to life. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• We endeavoured to calm him--but our own hearts were not calm. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• During our walk, Clerval endeavoured to raise my spirits. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I have endeavoured to brave the storm--I have endeavoured to school myself to fortitude--I have sought to imbue myself with the lessons of wisdom. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The Major's wife, a stronger-minded woman, endeavoured her best to comfort her young friend. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Yet I never deceived him, and I endeavoured to live on nothing, at my nurse's in Somers Town, _pour ses beaux yeux_, as long as I possibly could. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Both my sister and myself have endeavoured to correct his vices, but ineffectually. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I therefore endeavoured with all my might to call Sophia out, and draw her into some kind of conversation. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• But these I have likewise endeavoured to show, in the same book, are expenses by which people are not very apt to ruin themselves. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I then expounded to Miss Mills what I had endeavoured, so very unsuccessfully, to expound to Dora. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The nobles did not hesitate to express their fear; the other party endeavoured to treat the matter lightly. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I saw the water ooze in at several crannies, although the leaks were not considerable, and I endeavoured to stop them as well as I could. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The Turk, amazed and delighted, endeavoured to kindle the zeal of his deliverer by promises of reward and wealth. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Thus Elizabeth endeavoured to divert her thoughts and mine from all reflection upon melancholy subjects. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I have endeavoured to give to them their full force. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• But soon I endeavoured to extract patience for her from the ideas she suggested. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Idris endeavoured to persuade her to remain. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• My mother was in hysterics, and though I endeavoured to give her every assistance in my power, I am afraid I did not do so much as I might have done! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• As well might he have endeavoured to move rocks and mountains and make them dance quadrilles at Almack's! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I took a book--some Arabian tales; I sat down and endeavoured to read. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I seized the favourable moment, and endeavoured to awaken in her something beyond the killing torpor of grief. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He had waited, and then making his way round to the top of the cliff, he had endeavoured to succeed where his comrade had failed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

Editor: Roxanne