It was also reported that an attempt was about to be made to seize the Tower.
Nevertheless an attempt was made to get the Common Sergeant and then the Town Clerk(922) to put the question, but they refused to do so in the absence of the mayor and aldermen, and they too got up and left the council chamber.
M352) On the other hand an attempt was made to minimise the effect of the remonstrance by getting up a counter-petition on the pretext that the remonstrance had not fairly represented the wishes of the majority of the citizens.
An attempt was made to bring pressure to bear on parliament by a mob of reformadoes or disbanded soldiers besetting the House of Commons on the 7th June.
Accordingly, in April, 1811, an attempt was made by the Spanish soldiers to overturn the new order of things.
As late as February, 1902, an attempt was made to revive the war in Leyte Island.
In 1629 an attempt wasmade in the Province of Surigao (then called Caraga), in the east of Mindanao Island, to throw off the Spanish yoke.
When the others reached the top, they saw the charming young thing running about in the nearest grove, that in which her husband had dined, collecting fruit, and apparently as enchanted as a child.
When about mid-channel, the whale-boat made a sail coming down before the wind, and apparently steering for South Cape, as well as herself.
Now he might hope to convert that barren-looking, and often glaring rock, into a beautiful grassy hill, and render that which was sometimes painful to the eyes, a pleasure to look upon.
A forge happened to be in the Anne, to make some repairs to her iron work, and this forge, a small one it was true, was taken ashore, and an attempt was made to heat some shot in it.
Walker gave it as his opinion they were feeding in that place, no attempt was made on them until morning.
In short, the place was almost destroyed in one sense, though no attempt was made to injure Bigelow.
On the right, where Slocum with a single division of his own troops and our Third brigade of Howe's division, Sixth corps, held the long line, an attempt was made to retake the rifle pits which the rebels had captured yesterday.
Stuart, with his cavalry, had dashed down to White House and found only heaps of smoldering ruins; and from the absence of all motion in front of the right of their line, it was clear that noattempt was to be made on Richmond.
An attempt was made to retake it, but the boys held their ground.
When Tyrone arrived, an attempt was made to relieve Kinsale; but Montjoy was unusually well served by his intelligence, his dispositions were skilful, and the rebels were totally routed beyond possibility of present recovery.
Sidenote: Exit Alençon] At the end of March an attempt was made to assassinate the strong man of Holland, William the Silent.
It is also observable that when an attempt was made by the London merchants to capture the worsted trade, Henry nipped it in the bud.
An attempt was made to say something afterwards by way of relief, but Madame de Lauzun politely and wisely stopped the conversation, and brought out cards in order to turn the subject.
But when the procession started an attempt was made by her coachman to drive before the coach of my mother, and one of the company had to descend and decide the dispute.
An attempt was in fact made, which Madame de Maintenon strongly supported, to get them disgraced; and, but for the Archbishop of Paris, this would have taken place.
An attempt was made to do so, but it was now too late.
An attempt was made to settle the accounts of Congress; but all that could be ascertained was that they were in great confusion, and that vouchers had not yet been turned in for the expenditure of large sums.
In 1761 anattempt was made in Massachusetts to avoid both these difficulties through the use of the familiar Writs of Assistance.
An attempt was made to float a new issue of continental money at one dollar for forty of the old bills The new obligations speedily sank to the level of the old, and the country was practically bankrupt.
While the main British force was thus withdrawn from New York, anattempt was made to pierce the colonies from the northward.
As early as 1843, even before the declaration of independence, an attempt wasmade to secure a French protectorate, and during the first war with Haiti, Santana continued the negotiations.
In 1846 an attempt was made to obtain a Spanish protectorate.
In the ten years of anarchy that followed in Santo Domingo no attempt was made to straighten out the matter.
In 1901 an attempt was made to form a party known as the Republican Party, which it was intended to endow with a platform, but being composed largely of Jimenez' friends, it was viewed with suspicion and fell with him.
No attempt was made to capture the cities of the coast, and re-establish in them the Egyptian power.
A third, and far more practical, attempt was made by Lord John Russell to obtain the enfranchisement of Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham.
In addition to the formal treaties of alliance signed at Chaumont, Vienna, and Paris, an attempt was made by the Tsar Alexander to bind together the European sovereigns in an union based on the principles of Christian brotherhood.
A broad channel appearing and a fresh breeze springing up, an attempt was made to reach the water; but the ice came bodily in upon the ships, which were instantly beset in such a manner as to be literally helpless and unmanageable.
When an attempt was made, however, to carry the vessels over the bar, it was found there was not sufficient water for them.
No attempt was made to increase the animal's desire for food by starving it.
My only means of comparison was my eye, and as subjective measurement was unsatisfactory for the purposes of the experiment, no attempt was made to equalize the amounts of brightness reduction caused by the several filters.
Little or no attempt was made to enforce the law save within the ever-narrowing boundary of what about this time came to be known as the Pale.
No Knox or Luther however, showed the slightest symptom of appearing, indeed hardly an attempt was made to supply doctrines to the new converts.
An attempt was made to save Kilkenny, but after a week's defence it was surrendered.
The town of Sligo had been captured by the parliamentary troops under Coote, and in October, 1645, an attempt was made to recapture it by a party of Irish under a fighting prelate, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam.
No attempt was made to grapple the line in such deep water, and the expedition returned to England.
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