It was my earliest lesson in doubting the lasting effects of attempts to unite rival countries in any League of Nations.
How far all this may endure under the new attempts at Constitution-making by Occidentals for Orientals remains to be seen.
The Scholiast, as quoted by Clarke, attempts an explanation, but, I think, not successfully.
So particular was he, that he was quite half an hour in arranging this simple appendage; and at length he departed with his people, always endeavouring to admire his new finery, by straining his neck in his attempts to look behind him.
They are rather a peppery lot, are the Peruvians, and if he attempts to talk to them as he has talked to you to-day, he will stand a very good chance of waking up some fine morning with a long knife between his ribs.
I am one of those that detest all insidious attempts to rob men situated as this artist of their fair fame, by going about and whispering that perhaps the thing is true.
It is not probable, that these principles can be resolved into principles more simple and universal, whatever attempts may have been made to that purpose.
In early days, before the common school system was developed, there were many attempts to establish private schools in Cooperstown, with more or less success.
The intervening time was spent by Hamilton in vain attempts to influence the elections and to procure signatures for the new or King's Covenant, as it was called.
But allattempts to fill the outline in lead only to confusion.
Randal strode on, as if impatient of these attempts to flatter or to soothe; and coming at length into a broader lane, said, "I think I can find my way now.
Meanwhile there smote upon Helen's shrinking ears loud jarring talk and maudlin laughter, and cracked attempts at jovial songs.
Selfish in these attempts I might be," said Egerton; "it was only if I saw you restored to happiness that I could believe you could calmly hear my explanation of the past, and on the floor of some happy home grant me your forgiveness.
But now that you are convinced that even your zeal is unavailing, I ask you to discontinue attempts which may but bring the spy upon my track, and involve me in new misfortunes.
Basil Hall, Hamilton and others, in their attempts to describe the working of the democratic principle in the United States, have been unfavorably influenced by their opposite political predilections.
If there be no drain-cock on the cylinder, the difficulty of starting the engine can be overcome only by ceaseless attempts to set it in motion.
Taylor (in France), made some praiseworthy although not immediately very successful attempts to simplify the manufacture of producer-gas.
Long customs are not easily broken: he that attempts to change the course of his own life, very often labours in vain; and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves!
I leave many great designs unattempted, and many great attempts unfinished.
In this age the quiet surface of routine is as often ruffled by attempts to resuscitate past evils, as to introduce new benefits.
Mill and his wife drove up to Carlyle's door, the wife speechless, the husband so full of conversation that he detained Carlyle with desperate attempts at loquacity for two hours.
There are belated attempts on the part of our governors to read us pious homilies about disinterested love of learning, while the old machinery goes on working, whose product is not education but certificates.
In India, also, a vague feeling of discontent has given rise to numerous attempts at establishing national schools and colleges.
Through our mastery of these we not only make our whole nature articulate, but also understand man in all his attempts to reveal his innermost being in every age and clime.
It guides ourattempts to establish relations with the universe either by conquest or by union, either through the cultivation of power or through that of sympathy.
A bugler whom some tourists paid for his crude attemptswas doing his best (which was none too good) to awake the echoes.
I now heard other attempts at conversation, and amongst them many of the small enterprises which are called puns.
You have bespoken for yourselves every benefit to the country that can be thought of, and any other man who attempts to do good is encroaching on your rights.
Many attempts are made to that purpose in vain; some ambitious word is perpetually assuming importance, but fails to attract notice, and is forgotten.
The success of our former attempts at lesser "closer unions," is the best evidence of our co-operative ability in the face of obstacles.
It permits progress in whatever respect progress is possible, and prevents the misfortunes that accompany attempts to force progress where the time and conditions are not ripe for it.
As usual in the English attempts against Canada, the campaign was to be a double one.
In 1865 the first attempts to sew plait by machinery were made, previously all had been sewn by hand, a long and tedious process, when fine plaits were involved.
Then some attempts would be made with a cleanser such as soap, still utilizing the sun’s rays as bleacher after cleaning.
Further attempts in the way of decoration were made by intermixtures of glass beads and bugles.
In this we find that the designer attempts to balance objects informally over the geometric center of the panel or combined panels.
It is better practice to keep such attempts confined to the bottom or top members of the sequence or loss of unity may be the final result.
Some have plainly grown to their place through the attempts of artists to represent the vague dreams of poets.
After one or twoattempts it loses temper and interest.
She bitterly resents his exposing her to the ridicule of his companions; but I reminded her she had exposed herself by her attempts at establishing so unblushing a notoriety.
Lady Ball would not have come to her, would not have exercised her eloquence upon her, would not have called upon her to renounce this engagement, had she not found all similar attempts upon her own son to be ineffectual.
She was more respectful than she had been of late, and made no attempts at smart, ill-natured speeches.
It wore none of those pretty smiles with which morning callers greet their friends before they begin their first gentle attempts at miscellaneous conversation.
My foolish sister seemed to have taken leave of her senses; she thought nothing of the nearly certain collapse of our schemes, her one overmastering idea was, like any tigress, to resist all attempts to deprive her of her cub.
Time was too precious to be wasted in any attempts to win her back to common sense, and without waiting for permission I crossed the room, rang the bell, and begged the waiter to summon the lady's maid.
If she attempts to annoy you or Miss Roseberry again, I have it in my power to stop her instantly.
I positively refuse to read her, as I positively refuse to listen to her, whenever she attempts to return to that one subject.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "attempts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
