He rode over to where Sewall was endeavoring in a helpless way to make the mare go in a general northerly direction.
Then one should walk up and down the room, endeavoring to keep one's steps of even length and one's body erect.
Distinction is only efficacious and only possesses its proper force when it is the outcome of the qualities we have been endeavoring to inculcate in this book.
Since I have been in London I have been endeavoring to regain what I lost in Bristol, and I hope I have so far succeeded as to say: 'I have not gone back in my art.
The next and following day I spent in endeavoring to get a sight of them.
Concealing from the world his great sorrow, and bravely striving always to maintain a cheerful countenance, Morse threw himself with energy into his work in New York, endeavoring to keep every minute occupied.
Both were aiming at a party of young braves, endeavoring to outstrip their fellows by a series of short rushes.
But above all there was the supreme feeling that she was endeavoring to help those she had left behind.
There, coiled upon the bed, lay the beautiful young woman whom we first saw endeavoring to attract the attention of the Negro porter to a note.
Listen, then," returned Rochefort, as he spoke endeavoring to read in that subtle countenance the cardinal's motive.
All still remained silent, the eyes of all were turned in the direction where the vessel had disappeared, endeavoring in vain to penetrate the darkness.
During the whole of this nocturnal ride, during the whole time that he wasendeavoring to understand the various characters of Comminges, Guitant and Villequier, Mazarin was, in truth, studying more especially one man.
Endeavoring to check the injudicious importation of slaves and actuated by the same motives which led him to liberate the serfs of Denmark, King Frederik VI prohibited the slave trade in 1792.
We are concerned then with what the Danish were endeavoring to do, what they actually accomplished, and what the observer from afar thought of these achievements.
They seem endeavoring to hide the broad scar made through the forest.
You justify Count Nobili, then, my father, not only for abandoning my niece, but for endeavoring to blast her character?
About different virtues and vices," rejoined Ignatius, "endeavoring to inculcate a love of virtue and a detestation of vice.
To this end he directed all his studies, endeavoring at the same time to persuade others to adopt a like course, and to strengthen in their good resolutions those who had already embraced it.
It was fortunate for the good cause, moreover, add the Spanish chroniclers, that while the queen-mother was endeavoring to throw a damper on the kindling fire of her son, a worthy prelate was at hand to stir it up into a blaze.
It is thus the envious man brings humiliation and reproach upon himself, in endeavoring to degrade a meritorious rival.
Endeavoring to find their way about in the consequent darkness, the imprisoned lovers pitch headlong over the precipice I have referred to.
Falls were reported, whose roaring music could be heard on distant mountain-tops; and the walls were so steep in the desert, that persons wandering on the brink had died of thirst, vainly endeavoring to reach the waters they could see below.
We cast our eyes over the crowd, and soon saw Fred, holding a conversation with a soldier, whom he was endeavoring to bribe to get writing materials, so that he could indite a few lines to us before he left.
Instead of starting up to investigate, I pretended to sleep, and partly opening one eye, saw to my surprise that Bimbo was on his knees near my feet, and working with cautious energy upon a board which he was endeavoring to remove.
Murden, who was lazily swinging in a hammock, smoking a pipe with infinite relish, and endeavoring to keep the insects at bay by raising clouds of burnt tobacco.
He was half the time wearing irons, and when free from fetters endeavoring to create a mutiny.
Once I thought of starting alone, after vainly endeavoring to attract the attention of Fred and Smith; but I considered how cowardly it would be to desert my friends, and banished the idea, unless we could all go together.
I did not interrupt him, but sat patiently, while he was endeavoring to wheedle me out of my speculation.
The novelty of seeing three strangers at work endeavoring to save the lives of unfortunate miners, began to attract attention, and we soon found that a large crowd was assembling.
Keep back," cried Mr. Brown, who was endeavoring to restrain his gray horse from breaking away.
I got them in the first place, from a benevolent lady who works with heart and hand, day after day, all her time, in endeavoring to better the condition of the poor girls of New York.
It is easy for them to drug the liquor of a man they are endeavoring to secure, without the knowledge of the proprietor of the house; or, if they do not tamper with his liquor, they can persuade him to drink to excess.
He threatened to have the man arrested for endeavoring to extort money in such a manner, but the fellow reminded him that such a course would only make the scandal greater.
While endeavoring to "get his bearing," he was accosted by a quiet-looking individual, who told him he must go with him to the office and give an account of himself.
Whenever the sky is clear they can be seen sitting on the benches, vainly endeavoring to keep awake.
The committee of the Association has been laboring for four years past, and is still at work, endeavoring to educate the public so as to secure proper legislation for the prevention of this form of blindness.
The men that are endeavoringto build homes on that prairie.
We hear much about States' rights, as though the problems of Conservation have brought to life again an old doctrine, as though in some way the Conservationist is endeavoring to take something away from the States.
Never having had any land in our part of New England owned either by the State or by the Nation, we have been somewhat frantically endeavoring to have them secure some for the good of our people, even though it now has to be bought.
While endeavoring to impress the child with the sublimity of Moses' character, be careful not to attempt abstract characterization, but tell the story in such a way that the child appreciates the significance of Moses' acts and words.
Something he must have certainly lost which he was now endeavoring to find again, and, if his lament was to be taken at its face value, without much success.
So he set to work endeavoring to learn which way the air moved, knowing that in this fashion he could grope his way to the exit.
But he refused, endeavoring to excuse his conduct by the usages of war, saying that, now the war was over, all ought to be forgotten and forgiven.
Had it not been for this he would have perished, while they were endeavoring to find him by guess in the snow, for it was pitch dark in an hour after they reached the island.
And endeavoring to turn off this irresistible display of feeling by a show of pleasantry he laughed aloud, but in a strained and unnatural way that made her eyes lift in unconscious amazement.
Paula from her stand at the door--for some minutes she had been endeavoring to escape to her room--surveyed her cousin in wonder.
Paula bowed her head, amazed at the gloomy tone in which this emphatic assertion was made by one whose supposed ignorance she had been endeavoring to enlighten.
Miss Belinda, holding her back and endeavoring to look into her face.
It is for this reason, doubtless, that we are always endeavoring to personify Nature.
This is all gone; Marion and Temple hold themselves quite apart, and Augustus, evidently endeavoring to be neutral, is isolated.
He was endeavoringto get some one to take some important dispatches to General Sheridan at Fort Hays.
We nearly ran over the Indians who were endeavoring to reach their horses on the opposite side of the creek.
General Hazen, who was at the post, was endeavoring to pacify the Indians and keep them from going on the war-path.
The Indians were evidently endeavoring to intercept these two men, and General Merritt feared that they would accomplish their object.
On one occasion, having ventured about ten miles from the town, we spied a band of Indians not over two miles distant, who were endeavoring to get between us and the town, and thus cut us off.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "endeavoring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
