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Example sentences for "make trial"

  • Now I intend to make trial of the monster, and hope to make thee master of the pearl.

  • Now, therefore, O King of Kings, neither be thus distressed by the misfortune which has befallen Mirranes, nor desire again to make trial of fortune.

  • And he commanded them to set ladders against the wall and to make trial of mounting it, and they did as directed.

  • Therefore if any god come hither to make trial of thee, fight not thou face to face with any of the immortal gods; save only if Aphrodite daughter of Zeus enter into the battle, her smite thou with the keen bronze.

  • Yea, go to now, make trial, that all these may see; forthwith thy dark blood shall gush about my spear.

  • But first I will speak to make trial of them as is fitting, and bid them flee with their benched ships; only do ye from this side and from that speak to hold them back.

  • Nevertheless, it was determined to make trial of a railway coach, and George Stephenson was authorized to have one built at Newcastle at the cost of the company.

  • Symington failed in inducing any other canal company to make trial of his invention.

  • For this is the very way whereby God would make trial of our faith, and know whether, in seeking after him, we have been renouncing self.

  • Let us pray, therefore, and seeing that it pleases God to make trial of our patience for our good, let us be content with what he sends us, never growing weary of serving him, on any account whatsoever.

  • Solander's Tea, was at last persuaded to make trial of it, when in a few months she was perfectly restored to health and spirits, by the use of this celebrated Tea.

  • To make trial of his humility, an order was sent him, in the name of the neighboring bishops and abbots, to quit his pillar and new manner of life.

  • Many idolaters desired baptism; but the saint took a long time to make trial of them, and to prepare them for that sacrament by daily instructions.

  • It pleased God, for her sanctification, to make trial of her virtue by many afflictions.

  • Then they went speedily to the house, while Odysseus drew near to the fruitful vineyard to make trial of his father.

  • So Apries and his army were going against the Egyptians, and Amasis and those with him were going against the mercenaries; and both sides came to the city of Momemphis and were about to make trial of one another in fight.

  • AND the Pharisees and the Sadducees came to him, and, to make trial of him, desired him to shew them a sign from heaven.

  • He probably adopted this expedient in the hope of eluding the watchful jealousy of the nobility, and concealing from them, in part at least, his influence over the regent.

  • The historian Strada (who drew his information with regard to the regent from her own papers) has preserved a few articles of the secret instructions which the Spanish ministry gave her.

  • The duke himself must let him have his own will.

  • Make trial if Achilles to the ships From both of us our bloody spoils can bear, Or by thine arm himself may be subdued.

  • Make trial if ye will, that all may know.

  • Make trial if thou wilt, that these may know; Thy life-blood soon should reek upon my spear.

  • Having heard this Glaucos entreated that the god would pardon him for that which he had said, but the prophetess said that to make trial of the god and to do the deed were things equivalent.

  • After this Dareios began to make trial of the Hellenes, what they meant to do, whether to make war with him or to deliver themselves up.

  • This done, he went on to the pavement to make trial of the bow; thrice did he tug at it, trying with all his might to draw the string, and thrice he had to leave off, though he had hoped to string the bow and shoot through the iron.

  • You others, therefore, who are stronger than I, make trial of the bow and get this contest settled.

  • He then took off his armour and gave it to Eumaeus and Philoetius, who went straight on to the house, while he turned off into the vineyard to make trial of his father.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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