The value of a lighthouse on the Eddystone rock had now been so fully proved, that no time was to be lost in endeavouring to build a new one in the place of that which had been so unfortunately destroyed.
Mr. Stevenson describes it as amusing to witness the perplexing anxiety of the smith when coaxing his fire, and endeavouring to avert the effects of the rising tide.
In endeavouring to establish himself in his trade, Watt encountered the same obstacle which in London had almost prevented his learning it.
But he went on with his experiments, patching up his engine, and endeavouring to get it into working condition.
Boniface was at [thorn]is time endeavouring to bring [thorn]e war between France and England to a close by arbitration.
I was endeavouring to reply when I was interrupted by what soon put an end to the scene.
Jacob was to blame for seeking to win his own by craft, but Esau was more to blame for endeavouring furtively to recover what he knew to be no longer his.
Then she disappeared, and there was silence in the house: a breathing spell which the little man strove to employ to the best advantage by endeavouring to assort and rearrange his sadly disordered impressions.
Sybarite sat pondering with vacant eyes; and the wounded boy stared upward with a frown, as though endeavouring to puzzle the answer to this riddle out of the blankness of the ceiling.
Then he had to give instant attention to Spider, as the creature was endeavouring to walk on its two hind legs, to the discomfort of the steady old animal to which it was yoked.
George would hear all this in silence, though he knew that his old friend was endeavouring to comfort him by making little of the Basle linen- merchant.
He who had so sinned against her was about to rid himself of the burden of his sin by endeavouring to cast it upon her.
You could hear it frizzling in the kitchen, where the maid was also endeavouring to hush the crying of a third refractory child.
In endeavouring to account for the freedom of the women here, it was decided that it was owing to Anne of Brittany, the 'gentle and generous Duchesse,' to whom her husband Louis XII.
These men I spoke of are trying to discover what other men are endeavouring to conceal.
She wrote to me charging me with all sorts of wickedness for endeavouring to find you.
They had drawn back from one another, and were giving themselves easy airs, endeavouring to forget whom they were, treating one another as strangers brought together by chance.
The cat began to swear, and stiffen himself, endeavouring to turn round and bite the hand that grasped him.
Laurent hesitated; he looked at the corpses, endeavouring to discover the lean body of his victim.
While every one was endeavouring to supply the missing words, he exclaimed: "It is quite clear.
They chatted about the weather, endeavouring to force on a commonplace conversation.
As soon as twilight came, they shuddered, lowering the lamp-shade so as not to see one another, and endeavouring to persuade themselves that Madame Raquin was about to speak and thus remind them of her presence.
Finally, a mewing was heard, and Laurent advancing, recognised the tabby cat belonging to Madame Raquin, which had been accidentally shut up in the room, and was endeavouring to get out by clawing at the door.
It is, in truth, a singular thing that we should be always endeavouring to make laws to check the evils of responsibility!
Thus, in the question of foundling hospitals, the principle being that the father and mother should bring up the child, the law should exhaust every means of endeavouring to enforce this.
He found Holmes leaning languidly against the mantelpiece, resigned and patient, endeavouring to conceal his irrepressible yawns.
He therefore murdered Adair, who at the time was endeavouring to work out how much money he should himself return, since he could not profit by his partner's foul play.
I am, as you have no doubt surmised, endeavouring to trace these busts to their source, in order to find if there is not something peculiar which may account for their remarkable fate.
There were some figures also upon a sheet of paper, with the names of some club friends opposite to them, from which it was conjectured that before his death he was endeavouring to make out his losses or winnings at cards.
For an hour he droned away upon his violin, endeavouring to soothe his own ruffled spirits.
I am a private detective, and I am endeavouring to explain his disappearance.
Nothing--a mere trifle; I wasendeavouring to make peace.
Indeed, he slided so quietly into the room, that he seemed modestly endeavouring to avoid any particular attention.
In the successive monologues of his poem, Browning is endeavouring to depict the various strange ways in which a fact gets itself presented to the world.
Browning, like Goldsmith, seeks ultimately to be just and impartial, but he does it by endeavouring to feel acutely every kind of partiality.
There one of the four horses fell, in going down hill at a round trot; and the postilion behind, endeavouring to stop the carriage, pulled it on one side into a deep rut, where it was fairly overturned.
Laying aside all his arms, attended by two or three old men like himself, he went boldly to the plank, and descended quietly to the sands, where he found Captain Truck busied in endeavouring to get the spar into the water.
Instead of heading to the southward, however, as heretofore, Mr. Leach was apparently endeavouring to get back again to the northward of the headland that had shut in the ship, or was trying to retrace his steps.
One or two, who appear to be chiefs, go in and out of the cabins; but the rest are actively engaged in endeavouring to move the ship.
At all ewents, he has been much on the forecastle lately, endeavouring to persuade the people that they retook the ship, and that the passengers were so many encumbrancers in the affair.
He was deferring the evil moment, and vainly endeavouring to make himself believe that he was comfortably employed the while.
Every now and then he said some word to her of what he was reading, endeavouring to use the tone of voice that was customary to him in his domestic teachings of politics.
A great subject, which for years journalists and philanthropists have been vainly endeavouring to interest the general public in, has suddenly by leaps and bounds assumed the front rank in the great army of social and political problems.
Consider two or three points in illustration and proof of the truth I am endeavouring to enforce.
I tossed from side to side for some minutes endeavouring to beat down the impulses of the moment by the rules of conduct which I had framed during months of thought.
About eleven o'clock last night a young man was observed, while endeavouring to get out of the way of a hansom, to slip and fall under the wheels of a heavy two-horse dray.
She thought of all that Standish had told her about himself, and she felt her heart overflowing, as were her eyes, with sympathy for him who had cast aside his old life and was endeavouring to enter upon the new.
Cicero ludicrously describes Cato as endeavouring to act, in the commonwealth, upon the school paradoxes, which exercised the wits of the junior students in the Stoic philosophy.
The body of the people is yet sound, the constitution is in their hearts, while wicked men are endeavouringto put another into their heads.
When I first devoted myself to the public service, I considered how I should render myself fit for it; and this I did by endeavouring to discover what it was that gave this country the rank it holds in the world.
Endeavouring to persuade the people that they are no better than beasts, the whole body of their institution tends to make them beasts of prey, furious and savage.
This was true liberality; which they returned by endeavouring to confine the reputation of sense, learning, and taste to themselves or their followers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "endeavouring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
