And when Ulysses tries to console him by reminding him that he was even there supreme over all his fellow-shades, he receives this reply: "Renowned Ulysses!
Now old Donoghue tries all he can to find out What so busies his son, till he leaps out of doubt, And jumps at the conclusion, which proves to be true, That he means to get married the old maid unto.
Which soaking through the friar, tries to cool His anger, and persuade him he's a fool.
She was angry and vexed, and had certainly wept, But she would not her friends should suppose her infirm, And sotries to explain why he does not return.
When ready to begin the postman calls, “A letter is going from Washington to London,” and the children who have chosen these names must change places, while the postman tries to catch one.
As soon as a bee crosses the line, the farmer tries to touch him, and if he succeeds, the bee must stay and help him catch the others.
The second grouptries to guess the word, but must act out their guesses in pantomime.
The one whose number is called jumps up and tries to catch the platter before it has stopped spinning, and if he fails to do this he must pay a forfeit.
So the unfortunate “It” dresses up in some queer style and tries to win a smile from his audience, while they watch him very gravely.
The farmer stands in the clover patch, and tries to keep the bees (the other children), out of his clover.
Of course in singing each one tries to disguise his voice.
Indians are fond of football, although they don’t play by rules, for they simply kick the ball about, and each tries to keep it as long as possible.
He turns around three times, takes ten steps toward the candle, as he supposes, and then tries to blow it out.
But three tries only netted six yards and Wirt had to punt and the ball was Kenwood's again on her fifteen yards.
Two tries at the tackles resulted in short gains and then Wirt went back to kick.
Now the Blue desperately tries a forward-pass again, faking a kick, but Bradford has his man covered and the ball rolls into the hay.
Then St. Luke's braced and two tries availed little.
Mrs Tarleton, whose knees are stiffer, bends over him and tries to lift him.
As he tries to turn on his assailant, Lina grips his other wrist.
Brangaena tries to soothe her; Isolda, outwardly quietened, inwardly is planning how to carry out her purpose; Brangaena unknowingly suggests the means.
He tries to imitate its notes on a reed cut with his sword, that emits strange noises; and at last, annoyed by his lack of success, he petulantly blows a blast on his horn.
He soon tires of her; she tries to keep him; he calls on the Virgin; the hallucinatory dream is shattered, and he is in the free open spring air.
Walther's melody he has not got hold of at all, and in a state of intense nervousness tries to fit the words to the burlesque tune of his previous night's serenade.
In vain he tries to evade responsibility, to get something for nothing; and his tragedy is consummated when in Siegfried he realises that omnipotence can never be his.
Isolda enters, and Brangaena vainly triesto dissuade her from meeting Tristan.
To another most lovely theme he tries again to soothe her: she will not listen, and the Ortrud theme begins to writhe in the orchestra, and we know that Elsa's soul is fast bound in the spell of suspicion which Ortrud put upon her.
He tries Siegfried with stories of terror, asks him if he has never felt afraid of this, that and the other; and finding that this is the veritable Hero, makes his preparation.
Eva wants to know whether there is any hope for Walther or any chance of help from Sachs, and she tries to find out without fully disclosing the secret of her love.
Siegfried, as I have described, tries to cut a reed so as to imitate it, and there is some innocent fooling as he only gets odd squeaks out of his instrument; then comes the combat with the Dragon, and he returns to his place.
Fricka tries to awaken Wotan: in his dreams he talks of endless, omnipotent power, and of his castle, to be peopled by heroes to fight for him against the brute forces of the earth.
His car is broken in some way, so that it will kill him the first time he tries to run it.
Only occasionally do I see a little light as he tries to explain the mechanism of the thing to me.
The shepherd pursues the robber, catches up with him, and tries to snatch the sheep from his jaws, and the wretched victim, pulled this way by the wolf and that way by the shepherd, is torn to pieces.
Yet we cannot avow ourselves innocent, because God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants, like a creditor that goes about and tries to collect a debt owing to him.
That is the rod with which he tries any that desire to marry his daughters.
He tries once, twice, thrice, until he proves it impossible.
He tries wrenching the wrist with all his strength, and in every direction.
Another person then tries them in our absence, and assures us that he threw sixes ten times in succession.
It is when he finds this questioned, and is called upon to prove it, without knowing how, that he tries to establish his premise by supposing proved what he is attempting to prove by it.
Her mother tries in vain to dissuade her; her father directs her to a fit mountain peak, and she retires to her devotions.
Teresa strives to appear calm, and her duenna is the only one who tries to talk.
The dog begins to bark furiously, and tries to get away from Manuel, who holds him by his collar.
Ponce tries to follow, but Manuel orders him back.
Yet as soon as literature tries to advance new ideas we hear the cry against its moralizing and didactic tendency.
The verse writer as a rule triesto depict emotions from the start.
This is Croce's great fault--that he tries to rid poetry of what he calls any suggestion of intellectualism.
Throughout a restless, hurrying Allegro agitato (6-8) the voice has almost always interrupted passages, and seldom tries its powers in a sustained note or a melodious phrase.
Quite confused, he makes her tender excuses, and tries to kiss her hand, but seizes instead that of the Podesta, who has drawn near unobserved, and goes out confounded.
Belfiore tries to extort from Sandrina the confession that she is Violante; at first she denies it, but then forgets herself and reproaches him for his infidelity.
Ciana is now so engrossed in his plans for revenge that he scarcely heeds Celia, who tells him of their approaching happiness, and tries to persuade Junia to a feigned submission, and the murder of Silla in his bed-chamber.
The boy who tries his hand at ixoxal in totoloque will not stop at darker work when the prize is a throne.
Ah, yes, I know how he looks, Giovanni; he triesit upon me full often!
The English mother, whatever her rank, tries to give her children in their home what she had in her childhood's home; as well as she is able, she copies what her mother did.
Of whatever temperament a professional philosopher is, he tries when philosophizing to sink the fact of his temperament.
The teacher who tries such an experiment as this will find at such a juncture an expression of fixed and pleasant attention upon every countenance in school.
Each teacher who tries such an experiment will find himself insensibly repeating it, and after a time he may have quite a number of officers and committees who are intrusted with various departments of business.
He tries to find something to approve in the exercise as it proceeds, and endeavors to interest the class by narrating some fact connected with the reading, or making some explanation which interests the boys.
If the grower is satisfied with the price, he sells, and if not he tries the other house or the stores.
There are many injurious insects and fungous diseases that tend to make life a burden to the man who tries to grow plums in a commercial way.
I have only contempt for a woman who tries to hold a man when he wishes to go," said Anita, with quiet but energetic bitterness.
They will see that I had work to do, and that I did it in the only way an intelligent man ever tries to do his work--his own way, the way natural to him!
He names his characters, tries to give them some vague personality, furnishes them with some roughly and sketchily painted scenery, and gives us not merely told tales, but occasionally something distantly resembling conversation.
Catherine tries to be ordinary: and is an extraordinary success.
I listened to it with pain, for, if there can be degrees in the absolute evil of injustice and lack of charity, it seems to me that the highest degree is reached in that uncharitableness which tries to blacken the character of an opponent.
The wise human father does not so much shield his child from small pains, but encourages him to get wisdom from them for the future, tries to teach him endurance and courage.
They suttenly uses sum werry powerful words, and sez sum werry powerful things, and tries their werry best to spell like me, but I don't think as I can troothfully say as they always suckeeds.
Poetic thoughts it must dispel, It very often tries me sore: This tinkle of a Muffin-bell!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
