At first he had tried to cultivate the suspicion that Haskett might be "up to" something, that he had an object in securing a foothold in the house.
Once or twice, at the outset, he had tried to check Jane's ardor; but his efforts resulted only in hurting his wife's feelings.
Lethbury winced: he had tried, all along, to keep his mind off the question of antecedents.
He said that an invalid sister had indulged him in this habit, and he had tried to think aloud partly to beguile her weariness.
His host would indeed have been blind and stupid if he had tried to patronize Mr. Mayhew that morning.
Many of the dancers, in their kindly solicitude, had tried to intercept her, but had been too late.
I had tried to live near to God, and I feel sure He guided me in all my steps to this healing and saving truth.
I was so discouraged, after I had tried everything I ever heard of, and was no better but rather grew worse, that it seemed as though I must give up trying to get well, when a friend suggested that I try Christian Science.
I had been treated by doctors and specialists; had taken magnetic treatments and osteopathy; had tried change of climate; had an operation in a hospital, and when I came out was worse than before.
Lydia Graham hated Honoria for having won the proud position she herself had tried so hard to attain; she hated Sir Oswald for having chosen another in preference to herself; and she was determined to be revenged on both.
Here he had tried to live quietly, according to his friend's advice; but he was too much the slave of his own follies and vices to endure a quiet existence.
He had tried to reconcile himself to a landsman's life, and had found it unendurable.
His tapping had raised the dust from the velvety wall-paper wherever he had tried it.
I had tried to keep this thing about Thornton from you.
From the line of Kennedy's questions I could see that he believed that there was a hiatus somewhere in their glib story, at least some point where some one had tried to eradicate the marks of the poison.
He had tried to be as quiet as possible, but the foxes must have heard some noise; for when they came up to the mouth of the grotto they stopped and deliberated.
He was conscience-stricken on account of the gray goose, and had not cared to tell the goosey-gander how it had turned out when he had tried to cure her.
He had triedto keep a stout heart; but it was hard for him to reconcile himself to his fate.
I had tried hard at it, but had made nothing of it.
He had tried to drown me between Colonsay and Mull.
Oh, I admit it was cunningly done, especially the love-making, which was just the kind of stammering thing which I would have achieved if I had tried to put my feelings on paper.
He was doing what we had tried to do at the Somme and the Aisne and Arras and Ypres, and he was more or less succeeding.
His hands and face looked uneven with a sort of incipient boils, and his body also showed many signs of the disease, but he assured me that he had felt little or no pain since he had tried Dr.
The insect made the attempt again and again without success; at length Bruce counted that it had tried to carry its point six times, and been as often unable to do so.
It always seemed to make her grave and thoughtful, he had noticed, so he had tried lately to avoid the topic, and to-night in particular he wanted to do so, for this was no time for melancholy.
I could only be as brisk and busy as possible, and that I had tried to be all along.
My guardian's delicacy had soon perceived this andhad tried to convey to her that he thought she was right.
I began to kiss him, and he was more surprised than if I had tried to murder him.
The same hard luck pursued him when, with sudden demonstrations of affection, he had tried to convince Don Marcelo that three thousand francs a month was but a niggardly trifle.
As the enemy had been repelled and more ground had been gained, the combatants who had been living all winter in these first quarters, had tried to make themselves more comfortable.
Madariaga was an impossible character, but feeling a certain sympathy with the Frenchman, had tried not to annoy him with his irritability.
He had tried to talk to the priest, who, however, was coldly polite and would not speak of the things which most interested him, and seemed to prefer as a matter of dignity to remain buried alive.
The Schola had tried to let in fresh air, and had opened the windows upon the past.
The shy, reserved boy had been attracted by Christophe's gusty independence: he had tried hard to imitate him, quite ridiculously: that had both irritated and flattered Christophe.
That she had made a mistake, and did not love him, had tried to love him and could not love him, was obviously no reason.
Now he understood Leonora's mocking tone, and the violence she had used in repulsing all boorish liberties he had tried to take.
He had tried to root the thought of her out of his mind, but that had been impossible.
He had triedto love his bride in the early months of their marriage.
Once he was moved to repeat the scene, and bending low over the keys, had tried to kiss Leonora's hand.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had tried" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
