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Example sentences for "second attempt"

  • He seemed, even while cautioning me, to be fearing lest, after all, I might be a party to a second attempt to recapture him.

  • During the afternoon the French made a second attempt to capture Paradis and so cover our left; they were, however, unable to gain their objective.

  • He therefore had to extract it and make a second attempt at a different place.

  • She made a second attempt at remonstrance--again without effect.

  • Eager to make Sir Patrick his innocent accomplice on the spot, he made a second attempt to leave the library; and made it for the second time in vain.

  • Julius owned that this might be possible, and made a second attempt to lead the angry lady back to the piano.

  • A second attempt to protestantize the Cologne electorate broke down as the first had done (ยง 136, 2).

  • Second Attempt at Reformation in the Electorate of Cologne, A.

  • Had Captain Cook lived to this period of our voyage, and experienced, in a second attempt, the impracticability of a N.

  • Sidenote: Thomas's second attempt to take possession of the War Office.

  • A second attempt, beginning in the House, had the same result.

  • A second attempt, promising as favourably, encountered a like catastrophe, but not so fatal.

  • A second attempt, aided by a Spanish force, in 1719, met with the same firmness, and fared no better.

  • A second attempt in 1794, under General Sir Charles Grey, was more successful, the Republicans being overthrown.

  • In 1635 a second attempt to found an academy was made under the patronage of Charles I.

  • The baffling of Lee's second attempt to invade the North left the struggle in Virginia about as it had been before, except that Lee's veteran army continued to grow steadily stronger in morale and weaker in numbers.

  • After this failure it was more difficult to obtain money and recruits for a second attempt.

  • Dear Mr. Godfrey made a second attempt to leave his chair.

  • I made a second attempt to appeal to the plain, undeniably plain, evidence of the pulse.

  • May I depend on your making no second attempt to see her--except with my sanction and approval?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another state; half teaspoon; other substance; pure state; put out; second best; second brood; second crop; second demi; second expedition; second growth; second look; second mother; second nature; second part; second reading; second series; second shot; second story; second week; second wife; secondary education; secondary importance; secondary sense; secondary sexual; three steps