In Jolo two Jesuits attempted to enter upon the object of their mission, but were so violently opposed by the Moorish priests, and the chief men in the country, that their progress was very limited.
The French have attempted to form an establishment there.
A short time afterwards the King likewise having been attempted to be murdered, fled to Manila to request the aid of the Governor.
He took an active part in the formation of the Fine Arts Society, and was president of the National Free Art League, which attempted to secure the repeal of the American duty on works of art.
In 1472 he founded the university of Ingolstadt, attempted to reform the monasteries, and was successful in a struggle with Albert Achilles of Brandenburg.
It has been attempted of late to do away with this order altogether and to make the Caecilians merely a family of the Urodeles.
Then Batthyany attempted to mediate between the two extreme parties, and subsequently raised a regiment from among his peasantry and led them against the Croats.
Cope and some other recent authors have attempted to enforce.
Therefore when, three weeks after the session began, a debate on Irish election petitions gave him opportunity, Disraeli attempted that first House of Commons speech which imagination still dwells upon as something wondrous strange.
He himself was imprisoned as an offender against public morality (being an advocate of free love), and on his release attempted to found a model colony in Egypt, which was broken up in the second year.
Experimental education has been attemptedboth in Germany, where the need for it was first put forward by Kant, and in England; but it is in the United States of America that the chief advances in this direction have been made.
Varro and Pliny the elder, among the Romans, attempted works of an encyclopedic nature, the latter in his well-known Historia Naturalis, or Natural History.
Perkins had done a good deal in the same way; but Drain's exquisite mechanism enabled his engraving lathes to surpass anything that had before been attempted in the same line.
I desired to try my powers in making a more powerful steam-engine than I had as yet attempted to construct, in order to drive the large turning-lathe and the other tools and machinery of his small foundry.
It would be entering into too weighty a discourse for this place, if I attempted to show that our nation has produced as great and able men for public affairs, as any other.
The malcontents had attempted to send in a supply of provisions into Neuheusel; but their design was disappointed by the Germans.
On his return, as he attempted to re-enter, the cars started; he was thrown beneath the wheels and instantly killed.
Mind this: I believe I should never have attempted to destroy myself if I could only have burst out crying.
In thanking him for his good wishes, I attempted also to express to him (and through him to Miss Dunross) my sincere sense of gratitude for the kindness which I had received under his roof.
She entreats you not to suppose that she had the faintest idea of her situation when she attempted to destroy herself.
The stranger in the summer-house was now plainly revealed to me as the woman who had attempted to destroy herself from the bridge!
He had already tasted it, when the mutinous army to which he belonged attempted to pillage a smithy.
All who attempted to offer resistance fell by the sword, all the citizens' possessions were seized by the soldiers, as the wages that belonged to them.
They attempted syncretism and succeeded in their scheme.
The "government deliberately attempted to establish a society impervious to foreign ideas from without, and fostered within by all sorts of artificial legislation.
At one time a Chinese Emperor attempted in vain to destroy not only the writings of Confucius but also the ancient classics.
It is the record of their own friendly historian, and not of an enemy, that they, led by the Jesuit father Organtin, attempted this persuasion.
It attempted to purify and exalt their life, to make society better, to improve the relations between rulers and ruled; but it did not attempt to do what it ought to have done.
We have seen how Philo attempted to unite Hebrew righteousness and Greek beauty, and to harmonize Moses and Plato.
How Old Japan treated the foreigner is seen in the repeated repulse, with powder and ball, of the relief ships which, under the friendly stars and stripes, attempted to bring back to her shores the shipwrecked natives of Nippon.
I intend to publish thy attempted assassination, and deliver thee up in chains to the criminal tribunal.
All three attempted to shake the determination of the prince, but their united eloquence was unable to move him from his purpose.
But it did not stop here; what they had resolved on in the moment of intoxication they attempted when sober to carry into execution.
I frequently attempted to withdraw my eyes from this terrible figure, but they wandered back involuntarily, and found his countenance unaltered.
Under the former parliament attempted to obtain, by stealth, a power which did not belong to them; under the latter it struggled for a lawful authority which he insidiously had endeavored to wrest from them.
Twas but last night I performed my masterpiece in the third; this evening I attempted the fourth, and proved myself a bungler.
It would be quite worth while if a psychological explanation were attempted of this character, personified and specified in four such different ways.
These are the dangers that threaten the morality of the character when too intimate an association is attempted between sensuous instincts and moral instincts, which can never perfectly agree in real life, but only in the ideal.
Tis true that I have called upon all princes To free me from unworthy chains; yet 'tis As true that, neither by intent or deed, Have I attempted my oppressor's life.
But does not poetical literature also offer, even in its classical monuments, some analogous examples of injuries inflicted or attempted against the ideal and its superior purity?
His was a noble character, and would have adorned a throne which, seduced by the most atrocious artifice, he attempted to ascend by the commission of a crime.
He would have attempted the descent if he were sure no other horse but Wildfire had ever gone down there.
He was picked up and set upon his feet, half stunned, but when he attempted to take a step, he sank down groaning.
Frank attempted to follow instructions, but his legs felt heavy and dead.
The story of our colonial days, when England, with selfish and insatiate avarice, laid her repressive hand upon our infant manufactories and attempted to suppress them all, furnishes the first object-lesson she gave us.
The only daylight movementattempted would have been the cautious filling of the trenches, the pouring in of the long gray-coated lines along the communication trenches, all keeping well down and under cover.
But again the boy, his brow wrinkling with the effort, attempted with his bandaged hand to stay the needle in the doctor's fingers.
The stretcher-bearers carried their burden into the front trench and there attempted to set about the first bandaging of their casualty.
Then a weak counter-attack attempted to emerge from another line of trenches a good two hundred yards back, but was instantly fallen upon by our artillery and scourged by the accurate fire of the Hotwaters.
Jack and his warriors took a position on the opposite side of Lost river, and said to him that, if he attempted to cross over, he "would fire on him.
Sallie attempted to snatch it away, saying, "I won't give up my part of the baby.
In no case have I attempted (for the attempt would have been vain) to give shape and tone to the writer's thoughts.
He attempted likewise to restore to the people their ancient right of voting in the choice of magistrates [406].
The Isthmus of Corinth; an enterprize which had formerly been attempted by Demetrius, and which was also projected by Julius Caesar, c.
Master Fernald was not as eager to visit the cottage now as he had been, for he understood that Joe was speaking the truth, and the prospect of meeting the little woman, after all he had said and attempted to do, was not pleasing.
Now Joe would have laid the tiny maid on the straw to give relief to his arms, but each time he attemptedanything of the kind she moved uneasily, as if on the point of awakening, and he was forced to abandon the effort.
Oxton was within one mile; and, clearly, this was not like flying from danger as a coward, but fleeing from attempted crime, as a brother and a Christian.
These directions they attempted to execute; but the land bordering the river was woody, which exposed the canoes to the fire of a concealed enemy, and after losing one man, they desisted from advancing.
But the Colonists still had to struggle against farming the tobacco, which they had in vain attempted to get commuted for some other burthen, and many cultivators of that plant were reduced to indigence.
But when Aaron changed the dust to lice, the magicians attempted the same with their enchantments, “but they could not,” Ex.
This, under the next vial, resulted in the overthrow of the French monarchy, and in attempted revolutions in other kingdoms.
Only a few succeeding pontiffs claimed, and none attempted to enforce, the prerogatives exercised by the preceding Popes.
He attempted to dissuade the man from having his nap.
He suggested a question, exulted as Mersey attempted to phrase it: "Doctor, am I real bad off?
By reasoning against reason he pulls both ways, like the Scotchman who attempted to lift himself by his ears.
Such a disgusting exhibition, if attemptedin this age of civilization, would terminate in a few hours by the lodgment of the lunatic in the calaboose.
The teacher being a devout Christian, whose piety overruled his decorum, attempted to enforce the reading by a threat of punishment, but failed.
Greek philosophers, he attempted to point out the absurdity of some of Paul's doctrines.
The early Christians, almost to a man, discouraged the study of science, and condemned and persecuted those who attempted to propagate its principles, and even put some of them to death.
A God who is so ignorant of human language as to give forth a revelation to the world couched in such unintelligible and ambiguous terms that no two people can understand it alike, it seems to us, should not have attempted it.
We therefore stood on, being conducted by an officer at the mast-head; and after hauling round the point of the reef which surrounds the isle, we attempted to ply to windward, in order to get nearer the shore.
For all ships which attempted it before the Endeavour, were unfit for it; although the officers employed in them had done the utmost in their power.
The grief they shewed was inexpressible; every face was bedewed with tears; they prayed, entreated, nay, attempted to pull him out of the boat.
I attempted to trade for these articles on shore, but did not succeed, as the most of them were brought in canoes from distant parts, and carried directly to the ships.
At day-light next morning, May 1st, we got again under sail, and attempted to work to windward, having a light breeze down the bay.
In the evening, we attempted to take some up out of the sea, but were obliged to desist; the sea running too high, and the pieces being so large, that it was dangerous for the boat to come near them.
Some philosophers have attempted to account for the formation of low isles, such as are in the sea; but I do not know that any thing has been said of high islands, or such as I have been speaking of.
We observed several people upon it, but none attemptedto come off to us.
This they did, and never once attempted to push themselves upon us like the Otaheiteans.
But they were not for parting so soon, and now attempted by force, what they could not obtain by gentler means.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "attempted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
