Struggling upward from beast and savage into humanness, man has seen, reverenced, and striven to attain various human virtues.
He hadstriven to tell me of a mysterious experience.
In spite of the flippancy with which I had strivento beguile Chigi, I was vaguely but none the less genuinely troubled.
Strangely enough he offered the tiara of the murdered Violante to Felice Orsini, daughter of the very man who had striven in vain to win Palliano by force of arms.
Even now, under the modification which Nan had appealed for, he failed to see the continuation of that success he had striven so hard for.
His final remark had brought very near the surface all those feelings and thoughts she had striven so hard to bury where they could no longer offend.
She had striven to rid herself of every sign of the prairie to which she belonged.
Yet mayst thou have heard the rumour of one who hath bravely fought, And striven for prize of knighthood, and with dauntless heart hath sought Fair service for fair rewarding?
Then Gawain he bade him yield him, yet Lischois, who against his will 635 Had striven when first he felled him, was all unready still.
And many have striven with him, yet must him as victor own; Yet I still for his life am thirsting, and at last shall he be o'erthrown.
Further, that those who most strongly entertain these sentiments, are generally the persons who most highly value, and have most strivento promote, the good understanding between France and England.
At the kind request of Mr. Macaulay and Mr. Baines, I havestriven to arouse my mind by writing something worthy of being read, but I really cannot do so.
Forgive that pause:--one look to Heaven Too plainly tells me, he is gone, Who long with me in vain had striven For earth and for its peace alone.
He had never striven after this world's good things, and they never came to him in any great measure; but better things did.
Be not wise in your own conceits," "Render to no man evil for evil," and rather sets up an ideal of conduct which is to be striven after than establishes a law which must be complied with.
It is perennially true to human nature and to the Divine dealings with human nature, that help from on high comes to establish and touch to finer issues that which the true man has striven for with all his powers.
With all his strength he had striven to learn all that could be learnt of the high branch of knowledge to which he had devoted himself, and he was obliged to confess that this was little enough.
But, nevertheless, there was a very agony of remorse, a weight of repentance, in that he had not striven to make sure of his prize when he had been at Granpere before the marriage was settled.
I have striven with disease, that I might reach this place, and if possible, obtain your forgiveness 'ere my eyes shall close in death.
And but for this consideration, I must have striven harder against the stealthy approach of slumber.
There is nothing I have striven at more than doing my duty, way-warden over Exmoor.
This century had among other advantages that subsequent ages have striven for unsuccessfully, our own most of all, a common medium of expression for all scholars at least.
He is noted as having striven to make his figures more exact and his colors more natural.
I have strivenhard to do well, and have earned scant praise for it.
It implied to her mind something remote and unapproachable, yet to be earnestly striven after with all the forces at her disposal.
And if the white-clad pilgrim should have striven to combine economy with cure of soul by investing in cheap offerings, the scornful stag and his following will shake their ears, and bound away to relate to the gods the insult.
It was well known that a sacrilegious cutter had striven once to fell one of these gnarled trunks, and had been blasted as if by lightning.
Gazing through the hole made by a wetted finger in her paper-covered casement, she had striven to read on the faces of those concerned the result of their interview: and her jaw dropped in sheer amazement.
A nature which could always achieve its object was worthy of having striven after a better object than it did.
Has he striven through long weeping years to find excuses for the lapse of an only brother; and through daily contact with a poor lost profligate, been compelled into a certain familiarity with the vices that his soul abhors?
Him do what seemeth to Him good"--and sometimes striven in vain, until the kindly Light returned?
For my own part, I have striven and shall strive to avoid placing any obstacle in the way.
They have hoped long, striven often, always to be baffled.
After that he had striven for the appointment, a step far longer and harder, yet one that must be taken.
You know how I have worked and striven for this chance I have.
It was in vain that James had strivento bring Melville and his fellows to any recognition of prelacy.
Whether as a minister of the Queen, or as a minister of her successor, he had striven to carry that system into effect.
Archbishop Whitgift had striven to force on the Church of England a set of articles which embodied the tenets of an extreme Calvinism; and one of the wisest acts of Elizabeth had been to disallow them.
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