Sheridan endeavoured to retain for his countrymen the protection of Habeas Corpus; but he could only muster forty-one supporters.
One of the leading speakers at the adjourned meeting, himself a barrister, gave another barrister the lie, and a tumult ensued which Captain Biden in vain endeavoured to calm by his favourite remedy.
My sense of his goodness, and the anguish of my soul at losing my truly noble protector and friend, I have endeavoured to express in a poem to his memory, which I have now published.
I do not mean it was extempore, for I have endeavoured to brush it up as well as Mr. Nicol's chat and the jogging of the chaise would allow.
That struck my fancy, and I endeavoured to do the idea justice as follows: Had I a cave on some wild distant shore.
When sung slow, with expression, I have wished that it had had better poetry; that I have endeavoured to supply as follows: Adown winding Nith I did wander.
I shall say nothing at all, in despair of saying anything adequate: in my song I have endeavoured to do justice to what would be his feelings, on seeing, in the scene I have drawn, the habitation of his Lucy.
If the Druids were a Celtic priesthood at this time, or already formed a corporation as they did later in Gaul, they must have endeavoured to form and preserve such a unity.
He endeavoured to establish the continuity and the unity of phenomena in all living beings.
But he endeavoured to hide what he felt, and only snorted.
He wept loudly and without restraint for a few moments, and then suddenly ceased, and endeavoured to speak, and wept anew, agitating the watch in the direction of Edwin.
Then he endeavoured to substitute the knife for the fork, but he could not.
I was detained at Stratford nearly two hours, and endeavoured to see whatever I could, in so short a time, relative to Shakspeare.
The armed merchant cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, which endeavoured to arrest traffic between England and the Cape, and the Cap Trafalgar were sunk before they could do much damage (Aug.
The Chief Secretary for Ireland (March 20) and the Attorney-General (March 21) endeavoured to reassure public opinion.
We endeavoured to prevail upon them to set out in quest of moose which they agreed to do on receiving some rum.
I examined several of the individuals afflicted with it and endeavoured to obtain every information on the subject from the most authentic sources.
In the meantime we resided in our canvas tents which proved very cold habitations although we maintained a fire in front of them and also endeavoured to protect ourselves from the piercing winds by a barricade of pine branches.
We endeavoured in vain to prevail on one of them to accompany us for the purpose of killing ducks which were numerous but too shy for our sportsmen.
At daylight we shook off the snow which was heaped upon us and endeavoured to kindle a fire, but the violence of the storm defeated all our attempts.
He desired to know the effect that would be produced and the cause of it, which we endeavoured to explain and, having gained this information, he sent for several of his companions that they might also have it repeated to them.
On the 5th of August a party of the officers endeavoured to get on one of the larger icebergs, but ineffectually, owing to the steepness and smoothness of its sides and the swell produced by its undulating motion.
In reply to this speech, which I understood had been prepared for many days, I endeavoured to explain the objects of our mission in a manner best calculated to ensure his exertions in our service.
I had at first vainly more than once endeavoured to force away my brother, whose hand compressed my throat violently, but could not succeed in doing so.
Every effort to stop the flight of the Hungarians, was vain, they threw themselves into the valley near Motol, and endeavoured to cross the Moldau by swimming; but the river was swollen, and most of them found their grave under its waves.
I stood for an instant in despair, motionless, then threw myself, mad with grief, upon the ground and endeavoured to recall him to life.
With the whole gigantic strength of his intellect he endeavoured to swing himself up out of the wild chaos of thoughts which would have indubitably thrown any one of weaker mould into the black night of madness.
He vainly endeavoured to detain us, fruitlessly enquired the reason that had caused us to take a step so unexpected.
In that walk back to the house, where the old man lived practically alone, the rector endeavoured to impress upon Charlie, with the use of many platitudes, the necessity for that sticking to it; but without much effect.
The girl, having already penetrated to the true inwardness of the situation, endeavoured to carry the thing off with a laugh.
Jimmy, with a burning face, crossed the room to her, andendeavoured to control her.
Some endeavoured to break down the iron bars of the gates; but were attacked with fire, or crushed under stones hurled from the walls.
They became wonderfully excited, and proceeded to such lengths that, when I endeavoured to overcome their pertinacity with my entreaties, they came close up to me, threatening me with instant death.
He was condemned to death on a charge which was not even attempted to be supported by evidence, of having endeavoured by wicked acts to compass a marriage with Hispanilla.
In the mean while, not to abandon the siege of Aquileia, as all other attempts had proved futile, the generals endeavoured to compel the citizens to surrender by want of water.
He raised him from the ground, filled with compassion, and endeavoured to encourage and console him.
He endeavoured to conceal himself amongst them, as if the eyes of the count were those of a basilisk, and he feared lest they might gaze on him.
The Cid endeavoured to dissuade Don Sancho from his resolve, but his counsels were of no avail.
Gosselin, who set great value upon the divinity of the schools, quietly endeavoured to counteract his teaching.
The whole of the ancient society which I haveendeavoured to portray has disappeared.
Many a time I have endeavoured to deceive myself, but it is not in human power to believe or not to believe at will.
I have endeavoured to evade the ordinary cause of my errors; I have taken the counterpart of my instincts and been on guard against my idealism.
The scandal was such a public one that the priest could not fail to learn the truth in respect to many matters which he had endeavoured to ignore.
Every time she essayed to speak, she went off in uncontrollable spasms of mirth and when she wiped her eyes and endeavoured to speak, she giggled again.
They all sat in the stately drawing-room, and endeavoured to make conversation.
Restoratives of all sorts were recommended by her friends, but before any could be applied, she recovered, and endeavoured to laugh off any disagreeable inquiries as to the cause of her attack.
He had seized her hand, and was pressing it with rapture to his lips, while she in vain endeavoured to withdraw it.
The whole day the "Dido" had most perseveringly endeavoured to follow us, and several times we saw her nearly run foul of other vessels.
We had no moral doubt whatever that he had come on board our vessel with the intention of plundering us, and that he had afterwards endeavoured to send us to the bottom by attacking us in the polacca-brig; still no one could swear to the fact.
Instantly struck all of a heap (as he said) by the beauty and elegant costume of the lady, forgetting all about the eau de Cologne, he endeavoured to address her.
While he was thus running on, to the evident satisfaction of his shipmate, who, indifferent to their danger, seemed mightily to enjoy the joke, Daggerfeldt in vain endeavoured to stop him.
Staunton endeavouredto single out Daggerfeldt, but he could nowhere distinguish him; and after a severe struggle, in which several of the Spaniards were killed, he fought his way aft, and hauled down the colours.
By a series of forgeries, Daggerfeldt endeavoured to persuade her that I was false to her, though she would not believe him.
Scarcely an eddy marked where he had sprung in, with such determination had he endeavoured to reach the bottom.
Those jealousies that some weak and wicked minds have endeavoured to infuse with regard to the colonies, had their birth in the blackness of darkness, and it is a great pity they had not remained there for ever.
The agents of the colony endeavoured to explain this law to the Board (of Colonial Plantations in England), and to soften their indignation against it, but without effect.
He has excited domestick insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.
I endeavoured to interest myself in the old Neck, and to plan schemes of future happiness there, that were to be realized in Anneke's society.
The last even endeavoured to imitate the acts of the first, and, though the attempt was often ludicrous, it never failed on the score of intention and gravity.
It was necessary to appear, and I endeavoured so to do, without creating any alarm.
Then he endeavoured to overturn the Pitcher, that so at least he might be able to get a little of it.
He endeavoured to prevail on different princes of Europe to concur in his plan, and to erect colleges for the purpose, but without success.
He endeavoured to appear among them in high spirits; but his heart was inwardly sad.
Lorenzo sought to concentre all authority in the opulent few; but Savonarola, proceeding on the model of the best times of ancient Rome, endeavoured to vest the sovereign power in the hands of the people.
He leaped on their throats, and evidently caused an obstruction of the organs of speech, so that in vain theyendeavoured to relieve themselves by disclosing all that was demanded of them.
They endeavoured to carry up the study to the time of Solomon; and there were not wanting some who imputed it to the first father of mankind.
Wherever I could, I have endeavoured to render the topics which offered themselves to my examination, entertaining.
We have endeavoured to give sketches of London, its appearance, its life and manners, at various stages of its history.
I greatly regret to say I cannot make his views fit with most of the facts I haveendeavoured to put into chronological order above.
In the chapter on Celtic London I have endeavoured to show that the British town, if there was one, stood, as Ptolemy asserts, on the Cantian side of the river.
Pains and Charge endeavoured to attain a perfect and general collection of the Arms proper to every Society and Corporation within our City, and hath at length finished the same in a most exact and curious manner.
The tone and manner of Maltravers exercised a strange control over Vargrave; he endeavoured in vain to keep alive the passion into which he had sought to work himself; his voice faltered, his head sank upon his breast.
In the hope of being able to solve the problem of my whereabouts, however, I got on to my feet and endeavoured to look out of the window, only to discover that it was out of my reach, and that I was too weak to draw myself up to it.
After a while I sat up, and endeavoured to puzzle out my position.
Her face was somewhat paler than usual, and though she endeavoured to lead me to suppose that she had forgotten our conversation on the previous evening, I could see that the memory of it still weighed heavily upon her.
I looked down the long table, glittering with glass and plate, and as I did so, I endeavoured to apprize the value of my extraordinary position.
It sounds very nice, but he also endeavoured to advise me to return with him," I said.
I sprang to my feet and endeavoured to push it up, giving a shout as I did so.
I endeavoured to question him concerning him, but the old fellow was either naturally dense, or, for some reason best known to himself, pretended not to understand.
Fernandez endeavoured to press me, but I remained adamant.
He could not explain it himself, and endeavoured to reason himself out of it.
The Maid herself Monsieur France regards not as a skilful general or a wily politician as some writers have endeavoured to make out, but as above all things a saint.
St Hilaire was another evolutionist who endeavoured to explain how evolution had occurred.
We have endeavoured to demonstrate that neither pure Lamarckism nor pure Wallaceism affords a satisfactory explanation of the various phenomena of the organic world.
In making our deductions, we have endeavoured to act without bias.
In the second place, we have endeavoured to furnish the scientific men of the day with food for reflection.
He realized that he had made a failure as a guide; but in his own way he had endeavoured to be a guardian.
And, be it to Brace Kendall's credit, the course Conning endeavoured to take was a wise one.
Jed endeavouredto do so and it grew upon his imagination.
As she did so, the little child opened her eyes, and for a moment endeavoured to find her place in the strangeness.
He brought out the heavy book on philosophy and endeavouredto study.
In 1559, Pedro de Orsua endeavoured to trace the route of Orellana, but was killed by the Indians.
Montezuma endeavoured to pacify them; they listened with attention, but directly he had finished his speech, they again renewed the assault, and the forlorn monarch was wounded by an arrow.
The silly Mexicans, alarmed at the unusual appearance of the troops, the horses, the ships, and the artillery, endeavoured to conciliate the commander by rich presents.
The Spaniards have found it impracticable to reduce this nation, but missionaries have endeavoured to convert them without much effect.
The Scotch once endeavoured to form a permanent settlement in this country; a company was chartered at Edinburgh, called the Scots Darien Company in 1695.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "endeavoured" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
