While we were laboring, stripped to the waist, and trying our utmost to disable or sink the Spanish gunboat, an incident was occurring on deck which seemed more fitted for the pages of a novel than those of a story of facts.
I tore off a corner of my right thumb trying to squeeze a large box through the forward hatch, and the only treatment I gave it was a fragment of rather soiled rag and a little vaseline borrowed from a mate.
You don't have to keep your hair down with both hands and feel the cold chills playing tag up and down your spinal column, like you have to do when some people are trying to yarn.
The exertion of shovelling, or lifting the heavy baskets, added to the intense heat of the weather, makes of it a task extremely trying even to those of the strongest physique.
Kennedy had slipped near the port and was trying to perform the difficult feat of scanning the upper deck from the opening.
For my part, such a restlessness possessed me that, after trying to woo slumber for a half hour, I left my place and crawled over nearer the open port.
The 'old man' is trying to get every ounce of steam possible.
Why, the old chumps must have been trying to prove their grandchildren insane when they made that will.
As a matter of fact, intrying to kick Prince Karl out of your life, I kicked myself into it.
On the broad, vine-covered gallery they sat in dour silence and in silence took turns with Deppy's binoculars in the trying effort to make out what was going on in the offing.
Her tense fingers clung to the straining shoulders of the carriers, and, although she swayed dizzily from time to time, she maintained her trying position with extreme courage and cool-headedness.
If the servants are trying to poison any of us, Lord Deppingham, it is reasonable to suspect that your wife and my husband are the ones they want to dispose of, not you and me.
She was trying to reconcile her pride to the justice of his command.
The situation had its humiliation for a man who had been arrogantly trying to buy a horse, but he submitted with grateful meekness, and with what grace Heaven granted him; and Frank gayly entered upon the peculiar duties of his position.
Besides, another Party was trying to get her; and now ensued a negotiation which for intricacy and mystery surpassed all the others.
For a moment I looked at the slit, wondering stupidly andtrying to remember how I could have done it.
I listened with all my might, trying to learn whether my lady was pledging herself to any course, for I knew that if she once promised I should find it hard to move her.
This time he returned her gaze, with his face on fire, trying to melt her.
Instead of answering she cowered nearer the wall, and I saw that she was trying to hide something behind her under cover of her cloak.
I panted, trying to get to him; but the men held me back.
Immediately below us, at the foot of the mound, the champions and their friends were gathered, settling rests, keying up the wheels of their locks, and trying the flints.
I have told you,' I said, trying to control my anger.
You have heard about the child, my lord,' I said gravely, trying to bring him back to the present.
He was hurt trying to protect me,' she murmured, in a low voice.
After trying all other kinds of divination, they constructed a tripod (or table with three legs: see Servius on Virgil, Aen.
I at first thought it might be the fault of the sulphuric acid; but on trying some fresh, procured at another place, the same effects were produced.
Good men hid themselves, trying to escape from the miserable world, and sang monotonous chants of death and the grave.
Chance has indeed preserved for us on stone the story of a wonderful lady, whose early years of married life were spent in the trying time of the civil wars of 49-43 B.
Cicero is in each case trying to do his own business, while writing to a man of higher social rank than his own.
Then Will, trying to think of some cutting thing to say, would hasten to join his bosom friend Frank Haley, perhaps remarking as they tramped off: "Hanged if I can understand girls anyhow.
Then I dreamed someone was trying to get my pocketbook.
Percy Falconer, after vainly trying to get in place to walk beside Betty, who frustrated him by keeping Amy close to her, drifted off to find new sartorial worlds to conquer.
I don't see why not," spoke Mollie, tryingto catch Amy in a waltz hug and whirl her about.
Betty, trying to caress the twins, Paul and Dodo, both at once.
I am--well, to be frank, I am trying to find something.
He was trying to give his impressions of Silverdale, in comparison to country places abroad, while Mrs. Robert regarded him enigmatically, and Susan sympathetically.
I've been tryingto persuade him to stay a while with us," Joshua put in with unusual graciousness.
He was trying to read, but every once in a while would lay down his book and gaze protractedly at the house, stroking his mustache.
For us it was a trying and difficult journey over this burnt section.
We gained on most of the Indians, but the big chief and two others kept nearly parallel with us on the other side of the gully, trying to cut us off from the mountains.
I met a good many Englishmen of the roving, dare-devil class that has done so much to build up our own empire, and here in default of an outlet among Christian nations they were trying all they knew to get into the Turkish army.
A Sir Peter Something-or-other, who was trying to sell uniforms to the Turkish Government, completes the list of my personal club acquaintances.
As we travelled along day after day the glare on the snow was very trying to the eyes; and though we all wore blue goggles, we suffered a good deal of inconvenience, while our faces were dreadfully blistered by the sun.
The Russian officers were trying to rally their men, and parties of them began to make a stand under some trees and to reply to our fire.
Over and over on the floor we rolled, the Turk trying to throttle us, while we hung to him like a couple of bull-terriers, and gradually wore him out.
I began my acquaintance with N by trying to 'salt' her.
Quimby, trying not to look triumphant, and failing signally.
She did not notice, however, that it was certainly what Quimby was trying not to do!
That is the form of division they are tryingto reestablish now.
I was wrong to accuse you of trying to make me ridiculous.
Like many others, with equally pure intentions, in trying to avoid one misfortune she incurred a greater.
He had led the secluded life of a student, and, but lately freed from collegiate restraints, he had been trying his wings, preparatory to a bolder flight across the Atlantic.
I have been trying to quench the heaven-born spark within me, but it still burns, and will continue to burn, while the throne of the Everlasting endures.
She sat uneasily in her chair, trying to conceal her slipshod shoes, and furtively arranging her dress about the shoulders and waist.
But I'll tell you something better to do than trying to catch fish that only want to be left alone.
He's trying to tell us a storm is coming," replied Grandpa.
They were engaged in an effort with strong soap and sand, trying to remove their lately acquired complexions, when the sound of oars and poles on the river reached them.
The commander of the camp was especially anxious to get hold of some green vegetables, but the time was too short to attempt to grow anything, and he spent some leisure time in the woods trying to find some substitute.
But he found his way down on to the beach, and there stood a number of fisherwomen, trying to look through the mist towards the sea, and speaking anxiously.
I should be ashamed of trying to slip out of my debts in such a way.
When I had finished, he said, without the slightest change on his countenance, which I had been trying without success to read: "Why do you ask?
If any one has beentrying to frighten us," I added unguardedly, "by playing tricks, they certainly must be exposed.
And one night I went out with my candle to examine the clock, trying to make out the cause of it, and to see if I could put it right.
That is all I can tell you," she said, trying to make light of it.
He seemed to be trying to scan the horizon, as if looking for a sail, but no object, far or near could possibly be distinguished in the utter darkness that hung over land and sea.
Mrs. Harcourt, trying to decide which shade of silk to use, did not even look up.
The women gathered about her, trying to comfort her, but she seemed not to hear what they said.
The great gulls hovered overhead, flapping their wings, and circling about as if trying to determine what sort of little being it was that boasted such long tresses.
Flattery at once so charming and so complete left him defenseless, and he kissed her and went away, trying not to ask himself whether a legal ceremony could ever make wedded souls of two mortals of such diverse views of life.
I think it is Emerson who says that there are quantities of people who are always trying to become settled, whereas our only salvation consists in being constantly unsettled.
At least, what I understand is that you are trying to make me see that, the spirit of the age is the militant spirit, that does not wait to have its own presented to it, but takes it wherever it finds it.
Who are the people you are trying to snapshot for your lurid sheet?
All people are intensely interesting to me, for we are, after all, but one great family of human beings, trying to carve out lives that are worth while, and this we can do better by getting the best there is from each other.
In two-thirds of the States of the Union women are trying to make mothers co-equal guardians of their children, and trying in vain.
But you don't need the money," she argued, trying dimly to apply some of the principles which he was fond of expounding.
I am trying to demonstrate the glorious mission that belongs to woman when she fills her predestined sphere of economic independence and political freedom.
They are like people who might discover an ostrich egg-shell after the bird was half grown, and go chasing after it, trying to put it back inside the shell.
Of course everybody in the country knows that you live in daily fear of the poorhouse, and keep an advertising bureau busytrying to find you employment!
He found the child doing admirably, and glanced hastily about the room, trying to make up his mind whether he might offer any other assistance than that of a professional character.
He was over there at the time, and he'll tell us all about ittrying to put me right.
If by the help of God we are trying to do the will of God, nothing else really matters.
I shall not build up words in trying to answer this position.
While always trying to think fairly, and even generously about others, have you the right to think well of yourselves?
Somehow we know through this worth-discerning faculty whether a man is trying to be what we mean when we speak of a good man.
In passing I have only to say, that I am not trying to exhaust this theme, but simply to give it a setting which, I venture to think, is worth consideration.
And yet," he added quietly, "if there is anything in Christianity which distinguishes it from any other great religion, it must be near to the place you have been trying to get at.
In fact, I was a party to it, and was to share in the reward, but now they are trying to ditch me, and to be quits with them I will aid you to recover him on condition that you will not prosecute me for my part in the crime.
She passed the full length of the main room, and then retracing her steps stopped before each door to listen, furtively trying each latch.
In the gloom Tarzan was trying to peer into the features of his companion, but he did not recognize the man as one whom he had ever before seen.
A few were trying to speak to him, looking directly into his eyes and making monosyllabic sounds.
His mind was occupied trying to understand the meaning of this place.
The other looked at him eagerly, trying to understand his words.
He would be trying to play with her wrist all the time, pecking at her with kisses like a canary at a lump of sugar.
Are you trying to tell me that if Clarehaven pulls off the Derby our arrangement is canceled?
You know, I really can't help admiring some of the things that this dreadful government is trying to do.
She felt as the dowager must have felt when she was tryingto dissuade Tony from marrying an actress; she instanced every disadvantage she could think of for the filly; but Tony was obstinate.
I'm only trying to suggest that you are conceivably making a mistake in dividing your life into two.
If she was trying to tell herself that she pined to love a man without thought of children or considerations of rank and fortune, she could always elope with the first philanderer that presented himself.
The office was furnished with a large roll-top desk, three chairs, and a table littered with papers which a dowdy woman in pince-nez was tryingto put in some kind of order.
Think of me to-night when I'm trying to explain to father what I've done.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
