And, havinge any overplus of that money lyinge by yow or that is receaved for any other comodetie, use your best endevour to send it to me per first sure conveance (which I think will be per Capt.
So that, in the meane tyme, use your bestendevour to make sales of such merchandiz as are belo; and stand not upon small matters to make ready money.
Once use your best endevour both for that and the rest, as afforsaid, etc.
He shall endevour to be familiarly acquainted with the customes, with the meanes, with the state, with the dependances and alliances of all Princes; they are things soone and pleasant to be learned, and most profitable to be knowne.
It is requisite he endevour as much to feed himselfe with their conceits, as labour to learne their precepts; which, so he know how to applie, let him hardily forget, where or whence he had them.
Politike and wel ordered commonwealths endevour rather carefully to unite and assemble their Citizens together; as in serious offices of devotion, so in honest exercises of recreation.
The Athenians (as Plato averreth) have for their part great care to be fluent and eloquent in their speech; The Lacedemonians endevour to be short and compendious; and those of Creet labour more to bee plentifull in conceits than in language.
That love is an endevour of making friendship, by the shew of beautie.
These are but my fantasies by which I endevour not to make things known, but my selfe.
And they are to turne an other writing to me, to use their best endevour in doing therof only for Englishmen and no nation else whatsoever.
We must first endevour to make letters, and draw single strokes true, before we venture to write whole Sentences, or to draw large Pictures.
And he ends the book with a letter To my Lady of Duras: "My study and endevour to doe, and not to write.
I studie, I only endevour to find out the knowledge that teacheth or handleth the knowledge of my selfe, and which may instruct me how to die well and how to live well.
In this therefore, as you are forward in all things else, be content to do more for your friends then you would for your self; endevour it, that is effect it.
Having now given the reader a correct idea of the surroundings of "Beach Dale" I will endevour to describe Helen Winston.
And therfor let them that desire to be well thought of and welcome amongst men, endevour them selves to shunne this fault: For it breedes no good liking nor love, but hatred and hurt.
For I have already reaped such fruits from it, that although in the judgment I make of my self, I endevour always rather to incline to mistrust, then to presumption.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "endevour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
