The purpose was to use them for an attack on Ginchy; but a shift of arrangements brought the 47th Brigade into line against Guillemont and its quarries, which had on six occasions been unsuccessfully attacked.
The war still dragged on for a long time; the Greeks supported a rebellion against Persian rule in Egypt, and tried unsuccessfully to take Cyprus; it did not end until about 449 B.
In the spring of 1916 Dublin revolted unsuccessfully against this new government.
This was quite natural among men who had been fighting unsuccessfully for months in defence of the beleaguered city.
After Jeanne left Orleans Dunois had stormed it unsuccessfully for three hours, and Suffolk had strengthened its defences.
He applied unsuccessfully for the post of professor of humanity there, in succession to Adam Watt, whose assistant he had been for a time, and also for the keepership of the university library.
Unsuccessfully besieged by Agrippa; captured by Vespasian in Jewish war, 66-70.
Unsuccessfully besieged by Kings of Bantam and Jacantra, 1619.
In 1817 the experiment of two short performances on the same evening was unsuccessfully tried.
The doctor also wrote strongly in favour of Gwynn's talent and integrity when he was unsuccessfully competing with Mylne for the erection of old Blackfriars Bridge.
The attack was begun unsuccessfully in the lords by Richmond and Shelburne, and in December Burke gave notice that he would lay a plan of economical reform before the commons.
Their lawfulness was unsuccessfully disputed before the superior court of Massachusetts by a lawyer named Otis, an eloquent speaker, singularly devoid of moderation.
The second important decision is to exert pressure upon France to break her pact with the Soviet Union--something Hitler has been unsuccessfully trying to accomplish for a long time.
Allen, the reader may recollect, helped Schwinn organize the Mexican Gold Shirts which unsuccessfully attempted to seize the Mexican Government.
The day was passed trying unsuccessfully to get some shade with coats placed over sticks.
Tried unsuccessfully to simmer this into a paste and then bake into thick chupatties.
Here Selous tried unsuccessfully to kill a specimen of the sitatunga antelope by hunting in a canoe at dawn amongst the reed beds, but only saw one female, although he found lying dead a fine male killed by a rival.
In the same year he applied unsuccessfully for the Chair of Logic in Glasgow, but was appointed Keeper of the Advocates' Library in Edin.
He was a strong Liberal, and on one occasion stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for Parliament.
The next year he applied unsuccessfullyfor a medical appointment in India; and the year following, 1759, saw his first important literary venture, An Enquiry into the State of Polite Learning in Europe.
Emerson unsuccessfully endeavoured to persuade the author to suppress the more objectionable parts.
He repeatedly butunsuccessfully endeavoured to bring about an ecclesiastical union in Scotland on the basis of combining the best elements in each system.
He applied unsuccessfully to the governments of Venice, Portugal, Genoa, France, England.
The poor wool-carder's son of Genoa had long to struggle unsuccessfully with the petty conditions necessary for the realization of his idea.
His brother Alcetas, who succeeded him, continued unsuccessfully the war with Cassander; he was put to death by his rebellious subjects in 295 B.
The demand for Home Rule was not taken seriously, even by Mr. John Morley,[35] who stood unsuccessfully for Westminster.
He had previously tried unsuccessfully to form a Cabinet from the Right Centre under the duc de Broglie.
The Right Centre and Left Centre had unsuccessfullyjoined in support of the Cabinet.
This attempt was a failure, and cure was also unsuccessfully attempted by wire ligature and the thermocautery.
He returned for a third time, having himselfunsuccessfully performed castration.
We began our expedition unsuccessfully by the canton of Fribourg.
It was unsuccessfully besieged by Wellington in 1812, but was surrendered to him at the opening of the campaign of the following year.
At this point began his active interest in politics, and in 1880 he unsuccessfully contested a seat at Birmingham in the Tory-Democrat interest.
The mount or hill-country in b appears to be that which the Israelites unsuccessfully attempted to take (Num.
Jajhar Singh, the third Bundela chief, unsuccessfully revolted against the court of Delhi, and his country became incorporated for a short time with the empire.
La Salle, unwilling to accept a position of inferiority, left the Canaries and appealed unsuccessfullyfor redress at the court of Castile.
I tried unsuccessfully to prevail on some of them to guide us for a few days on the road, but they only looked at each other and laughed.
On Richard's death in 1272 he again unsuccessfully contested the imperial crown.
I sat up a few more hours unsuccessfully trying to figure out what they had seen.
This interview gave the definite impression that the Air Force was unsuccessfullytrying to cover up some very important information, using Venus as a front.
In two night encounters, one in New Jersey and one in Massachusetts, F-94's tried unsuccessfully to intercept unidentified lights reported by the Ground Observer Corps.
When the reports first began to come in, I had called the intelligence officers at all of the major military installations in the Southeast unsuccessfully trying to find out if they could shed any light on the cause of the sightings.
When these devices failed, attempts were made unsuccessfully to exclude Lord Stewart from the conferences on the ground of defective powers.
It was followed by more than a century of civil disorder and wars, during which the exiled Buddhist monks attempted unsuccessfully again and again to return.
Like many others who in their later years have become "rank Tories," he began his political life as a Liberal, contesting the town of Stafford unsuccessfully in that interest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unsuccessfully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
