Pastoral simplicity does not deal in these; and though it seek to oblige, its endeavoursare unostentatious and silent.
On every extraordinary provocation she has recourse to the Scriptures, and endeavours to regulate her vehemence by sacred precedents.
No doubt it would be a good thing to reward the more active workmen with higher wages, and a wise employer endeavours to do this when he can, and to put the best workmen into the best places.
In other cases the delegates lay their respective views before a man of sound and impartial judgment, who then endeavours to suggest terms to which both sides can accede.
By this principle Ferguson endeavours to reconcile all moral systems.
The issue which they witness is a real issue; the skilledendeavours with which they sympathize are put forth for a definite practical result, and a result disastrous to one of the parties concerned.
Even the Greeks were engaged in helping these under-water craft in their endeavours to starve out the armies of the Allies.
It is a shy, timid animal, without any malice in its character; and although possessed of great strength, never uses it except for defence, and then only in endeavours to escape.
This the bull was using all his endeavours to prevent, and with considerable success too, as already several of the wolves were down, and howling with pain.
The bear seemed to have some apprehension as well as ourselves; for, instead of continuing his endeavours to climb into the canoe, he contented himself with holding fast to the stern, evidently under some alarm.
The gun is reloaded, and our amateur hunter, seeing the thick flock upon another tree, again endeavours to approach it, but with like success.
She used all her endeavours to persuade me to change my resolution; but I continued firm, and pacified her a little, by promising that I would sacrifice him against the Bairam of the following year.
But all was in vain our endeavours had no effect; the sails were split in a thousand pieces, and the ship was stranded; several of the merchants and seamen were drowned and the cargo was lost.
But all their endeavours were to no purpose; what pains soever they took they could not discover the murderer; so that the vizier concluded his life to be lost.
I will do my utmost endeavours to make this project succeed, and I am persuaded you will not be backward.
Let us, as we do, provoke one another to good works, not doubting that God will bless our feeble endeavours to His glory.
When I really strive after purity of heart--for my endeavours are too often little more than pretence--I find no consideration so effectual as that of the exalted dignity and infinitely precious privileges of the saints.
Maria, and his marriage with her was frustrated only by the united endeavours of the queen mother and the cardinal.
And whosoever I find in any endeavours to hinder this resolution of mine (except it be only to myself), I will be his enemy to the last moment of my life.
The queen raised her up, mingled her tears with those of the troubled maid, and promised to use her endeavours towards averting the king's displeasure.
Meanwhile, great bodies of the citizens of all classes had been at work; some upon the cumbrous engines, others carrying water, others levelling houses, but all their endeavours seemed powerless to quell the raging flames.
The Germans are strenuous in their endeavours to make every preparation for the successful raid upon our shores.
Openly opposing her mother when she endeavours to persuade her to take up with men with whom she has been formerly acquainted, on account of the great gains to be got from them.
This demoness is believed to suffer more pain than it inflicts, and vainlyendeavours to destroy herself.
The eye of reason will deal with both all the more effectively, because with as little wrath as a surgeon feels towards the hare-lip he endeavours to humanise.
The woman who endeavours to justify herself to her jealous lover, always has a powerful ally in his own self-love, and Devarges was quite willing to believe that even if he had lost her love, he had never at least been deceived.
The talk falling on the chances of peace, Charles referred to Suffolk if he were not sincere and constant in his endeavours to bring it about.
The Reformers themselves had set their affections in a different world, and professed to look for the finished result of their endeavours on the other side of death.
Charles made laudable endeavours to acquire English, and even learned to write a rondel in that tongue of quite average mediocrity.
Had not a restraining influence, anxiously and even acrimoniously urged, broken in on their endeavours the English language to-day might have been almost as completely latinized as Spanish or Italian.
But both endeavours to date and to define are alike impossible.
Here is a man who endeavours to interest you, not in the character of some other person he has imagined or observed, but in himself.
All Miss Hobart's endeavours to stop her tongue were ineffectual; and continuing to rail at herself ironically, the whole court was puzzled to comprehend her meaning.
His endeavours to conceal from us his inclination for that sect which my father hated, gave an air of mystery to his words.
I envied him for this, considering myself as a reprobate and him as a child of God; but with all my endeavours I could not succeed in being so correct!
It is now engaged in energetic endeavours to form for itself the highest of earthly possessions,--a State.
The Board of Education endeavours to act on exactly the same principles as those which the law has laid down with respect to the common schools.
Having parted from my travelling companion at New Orleans, one of my first endeavours was, by the aid of physiognomy, to discover some passenger on whom it might suit me to inflict my society.
Suddenly the scene changes, the Chats Falls burst upon the sight; and well does the magnificent view repay the traveller for any difficulty he may have had in his endeavours to reach this spot.
One makes an excuse for tediousness; a second makes an apology for delay; a third makes his endeavours plead for favourable reception, &c.
Ignoring him and going to centre of floor where she looks angrily at William John Granahan who endeavours to appear unconcerned.
He endeavours to bluff it with a show of geniality.
The wandering Gypsey in Hungary and Transylvania, endeavours to procure a horse; in Turkey, an ass serves to carry his wife and a couple of children, with his tent.
He set himself to the task of persuading his two friends of their mistake, but his endeavours were in vain.
They undoubtedly reprobate what is called mixed education, or the system which endeavours to separate education from religion, as the Queen's Colleges profess to do.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "endeavours" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
