I strove in vain to drive from me my gloomy thoughts.
There was not wanting an opposition, that strove against Goethe, this majestic tree.
Cuthbert, did his best to free her from the chain of perpetual slavery, and strove to exalt her with uplifted arm.
She strove to hide her emotion as she hurried down the grassy terrace to greet her.
She knew she was beautiful, but all the men she had hitherto met who strove to make an impression on her had dwelt altogether on her beauty.
My mind was not always occupied with Kate; but when I strove to compel it to look at anything else, I had a feeling as though something must be happening to her while my mind was away from her.
It cut her to the quick; but she strove to emulate his seeming nonchalance.
So she strove to make him comprehend that he was treading on dangerous ground.
Yvonne strove at once to change this ticklish topic.
Yvonne was on the point of asking Raymond to pardon her if she deferred receiving him until the next day, when his adroit brain anticipated some such setback to his plans, and he strove instantly to prevent it.
I am all o'er-sib to Adam's breed that ye should give me scorn, For I strove with God for your First Father the day that he was born.
Earth sold her chosen men of strength (They lived and strove and died for me) To drive my road a nation's length, And toss the miles aside for me.
And yet, from time to time, a smile stole into her lips of its own accord, as if betraying against her will some sweet and secret hoard of delicious joy within, that she strove in vain to hide.
Though the Germans assiduously strove to conceal the damage done, the later observations of the ruined port by British airmen left no doubt that as a submarine base it had been put out of commission for months to come.
An army of men strove to hold her fast, while an effort was made to reduce her bulk by deflation.
All that Wellington stroveto see, all that the cavalry failed to find for Napoleon is to-day brought to headquarters by airmen, neatly set forth in maps, supported by photographs of the enemy's positions taken from the sky.
The craft with which the Brazilian first strove to win the Deutsch prize he called Santos-Dumont No.
And Count Golm strove in every imaginable way--but in vain.
And when John Mure strove to persuade him to it, he struck at him fiercely with his open hand, leaving the stead of his fingers dead white upon his father's cheek.
Thy brother had not so have treated his chief, when he strove with the enemies of the clan.
Do you know, I've never seen any one who cared so much for old tales of knights and their deeds of valor and strove so little to emulate them in real life.
When next she saw them alone together, she strove to convince herself that it was nothing, after all.
The Lethbridges were in consternation; they strove in vain to stimulate the applause; the audience resented the attempt, and commenced to hiss.
He strove to draw her into conversation, and if he managed to extract a word from her it was but a word--often not even that; a look of scorn and contempt was then his reward.
There was an awkward silence during which both strove to appear unconcerned.
He stepped into the box-like apartment, and for a moment stood speechless as his eyes strove to take in the details of the horrid scene.
In vain he strove to control the trembling of his muscles as he crushed her to him.
He hardly expected a light to show from a village of windowless tepees in the dead of winter, and he strove to remember which of those vague splotchy outlines was the black spruce swamp against which he had seen the tepees.
What is of importance is that he did leave it and that Amabel, knowing it was Frederick, strove to make her auditors believe it was Zabel, who carried the remainder of the money into the woods.
The English strove with desperate strength; paused, rallied, staggered, fled; The green hillside is matted close with dying and with dead.
The Count strove to reassert his power, but Van Artevelde stormed the Castle and the prince was forced to accompany the men of Ghent to the annual procession at Tournai wearing their colours.
He strove hard to dissuade Mrs. Fry from entering the wards, and failing in that, begged her at least to leave her watch in his office, assuring her that not even his presence would prevent its being torn from her.
And while Abderrahman strove to check their tumult and to lead them back to battle, the warriors of the Franks came around him, and he was pierced through with many spears, so that he died.
And hestrove in vain to bring back the comforting vision of the chamber.
There was noise without power, there was sensuality that strove to imitate the tenderness of passion; and she had fancied it a cloudy garden of love.
Yet strove his Muse, by same or envy led, To tear the laurels from a sister's head?
He strove in every way to do all that could be done.
My mother and Marion strove hard to subdue their anguish, in order not to irritate the already much excited George; but there were moments when his outbursts of rage were furious in the extreme.
Give us a kiss afore you go, old gal," said Josh Pedler, by way of affording her some encouragement to begin the frightful course of prostitution to which he strove to urge her.
The more I strove to be respectable, the more I was persecuted.
I strove to awaken my unhappy friend to the necessity of enduring this new affliction with courage; and in a short time my representations, joined to Lucy's prayers and entreaties, succeeded to some little extent.
At length she rose abruptly, and evidently strove to conquer her grief.
But even as she uttered these words, Jane Cummins heaved a sigh—although she strove hard to subdue it.
On the contrary, he strove to console her by assurances of his hope that her father must be the victim of a terrible junction of adverse circumstances, and that his innocence would yet transpire.
For seventeen years Hannibal stroveagainst Rome, for sixteen years Napoleon strove against England; the efforts of the first ended in Zama, those of the second in Waterloo.
He suddenly collapsed before her, caught feebly at her white satin skirt with his bloody hands as he lay upon the floor and strove to carry it to his lips.
In the cloud of dust that arose instantly, Maxwell, forgetful of his broken arm, strovevainly to follow with his gaze Sue Belle's flying figure.
The wife of the man who had just fallen shrieked with anguish, while the other women strove to comfort her and to hush the whimpering of the children.
Elizabeth closed her eyes, and her anguished lips strove in vain to form the words of a prayer.
He even stroveweakly to assume an air of good-humored badinage.
She held a cup to his mouth and he obediently strove to swallow the contents.
He strove hard to appear brusquely good-humored, indifferent, though for one of his mould he was absurdly irritable.
Iris strove to be severe, but there was a touch of anxiety in her tone that instantly made the sailor apologetic.
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