A book lay before her, and she essayed to read it, but in vain.
Under ordinary circumstances Richard would have shrunk from such a scene; but he had now a part to play, and therefore essayed to laugh at each jest, and to appear as reckless as his neighbours.
Nowell essayed to cry out, but his tongue refused its office.
In his thirteenth year he essayed to compose verses, and at the age of twenty became a contributor of poetical stanzas to the provincial journals.
It was while living there, under her parents' roof, that, so early as her thirteenth year, she first essayed to write verses.
I essayed to speak to her, but my timidity returned upon me with double force.
Orchestra essayed the Prima Donna Waltz, which gradually degenerated into "Wait for the Wagon," and concluded in "Few Days.
Suddenly stopping, she seemed once more to remember herself, and essayed a reply to my question.
It cost them several of their boldest men; for the moment one of them essayed to rush forwards, the cracks of three or four rifles could be heard; and one of these was sure to deliver its messenger of death.
With one arm round the upright to prevent the sag of rope from dragging him over prematurely, he essayed a final survey.
Heartsick, self-sick to boot, he essayed to suggest that she consult Colonel Stanistreet, but lacking so much effrontery, stammered and fell silent.
The general essayed to speak in reply to this sentence, but the priests bid him hold his peace, and join them in preparing his soul for heaven.
Monty gave orders to throw down the fringe of trees and let them through to the castle road, so saving them from the total annihilation in store if they had essayed to scramble up the slippery ramp.
Within five minutes they were shoving the stones off the trap at imminent risk of anybody's legs, and the ladder bent groaning under the weight of twice as many as it ought to bear, as half of them essayed the short cut over the roof.
However, he was not hit badly, and essayed to pick me up again.
Peter Measel, missionary on his own account, and sometime keeper of most libelous accounts, stepped out from the shadows and essayed to warm himself, walking past the German with a sort of mincing gait not calculated to assert his manliness.
Then, with nervous hand, he essayed "When this Cruel War is Over.
Entertaining this opinion, I have essayed the task of an individual effort, and hope that others may follow my example.
She looked round with a little shivering breath, and her lipsessayed to move.
She bent over the prostrate figure and once more essayed to remove the letter from the gripping fingers.
His answer was a sigh, and when she chid him for it, he essayed a smile that was yet more melancholy.
Twice one of his opponents essayed it, and twice did Galliard's deadly point repel him.
As the General had not essayed to smother his voice, it was heard by his followers, and produced the effect which might have been expected.
Then, by a sort of desperate effort, he essayedto march to the spot, with his customary upright mien and military step.
Gertrude, who saw all the beauty of the picture her aunt had essayed to describe, without descending to the humble employment of verbal criticism.
I essayed to raise him, and after a few efforts supported him in the bed in a sitting posture.
Swinburne has also essayed the minstrel ballad in various forms.
For the type of prose romance essayed by Shelley, see Vol.
When he essayed metrical romances in numerous cantos, his deficiencies in art became too fatally evident.
Colonel Flitcroft essayed a smile, a faltering one.
Removing his sandals and laying aside all of his harness and weapons other than a single belt supporting a dagger, the Gatholian essayed the dangerous ascent.
She essayed many tasks, to fail of attention, to find that her mind held only Stewart and his fortunes.
At first Madeline and Dorothy essayed to direct the endeavors of their respective players.
He vainly essayed all the keys, save one, and that he now strove to fit to the lock.
Again the fool essayed to waken him, and this time he opened his eyes, felt for his beads and commenced to mutter a prayer in Latin words, strung together in meaningless phrases.
Nothing could be done effectively to change the political composition of the Lower House; something could be essayed with the reasonable hope of modifying the composition of the Upper House.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "essayed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
