94 collocations for essays

He had essayed the rôle of waiter but had lasted only through the first courses; down to the entrées, he thought; certainly not much past the pottage.

He had had no idea, when he first planned his work, what a tremendous task he was essaying.

Twice Flint essayed the feat and failed, splashing a good deal of water over the floor.

The wind, left to its own devices, skittered across cold-looking little pools of water, and tried in vain to induce the soaked leaves of the autumn before to essay an aerial flight.

His wife essayed another smile, but failed.

Reassured by the apparent abstraction of his friend, the commandant gathered himself and essayed a pleasantry.

Once, when I essayed a "short cut" of two miles, that was to save me twice that distance, I rode at a good pace for an hour and a half to accomplish it, and traveled, as I thought, at least eight miles.

Hitherto I had essayed a much less romantic role in life, belonging rather to the crowd of uplifters who conduct the drab and dreary battle with the slums.

"As to being angry with you," I answered, "I am not, like Thorndyke, one to essay the impossible, and if I could be angry it would hurt me more than it would you.

Not the humble chroniclernot any man, perhaps, and but few womencan essay an answer.

And the more desirous he was to essay a high religious life and thus rise in favor with God, the more severe and revengeful and unforgiving he made the Deity he adored,not a compassionate Creator and Father, but an irresistible Power bent on his destruction.

Still on I footed, searching through and through The leafy mountain-passes, till I saw The creature, and forthwith essayed my strength.

Mr. Wilks laughed scornfully and essayed a sneer, while his friends, regarding his contortions with some anxiety, expressed a fear that he was not quite himself.

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A red-haired mate, with superfluous utterance, informed the applicant he could come that afternoon and temporarily essay the delinquent one's duties, checking up the bags of merchandise and bananas the natives were bringing aboard, and otherwise making himself useful.

Like many another defender of the right to lie in behalf of a worthy cause, in all the centuries, Chrysostom essays no definition of the "lie," and indicates no distinction between culpable concealment, and concealment that is right and proper.

What a pleasure to enjoy secretly all her movements, to direct her sentiments, augment them, hasten them, and glory in the victory even before she has suspected that you have essayed her defeat!

I will essay no description of it here, but it will carry through long generations the name and memory of Jonas Webb of Babraham.

" FROBISHER, SIR MARTIN, famous English sailor and navigator, born near Doncaster; thrice over enthusiastically essayed the discovery of the North-West Passage under Elizabeth; accompanied Drake to the West Indies; was knighted for his services against the Armada; conducted several expeditions against Spain; was mortally wounded when leading an attack on Brest, and died on his passage home (1535-1594).

A cowled monk, an aged veiled nun, Become false panders, and with lustful speech Essay the chaste ears of true maidenhead!

Remember the efforts essayed four years ago for the election of Mr. Fremont, efforts which would have succeeded perhaps, if Mr. Fremont had not been a Catholic.

He now left his spade and stepped apart, essaying now a little broken English.

He called eloquence spell-binding, and sentiment slush,sentiment, that is, in books and on the stage,and he was indulgently inclined to suspect that there was something "in it" for whoever appeared to be essaying a benevolent enterprise.

From there she essayed another escapade only to fall into our hands.

They essayed no great extension of their dominions; they did not try to extinguish their dangerous neighbors the schismatic Fatimites; and though they possessed and used fleets, they ventured upon no excursions against Europe.

94 collocations for  essays