1609 collocations for try

We rowed about this beautiful sheet of water, exploring its secluded bays and romantic islands, trying experiments with the trout wherever a stream came down from the hills, and trolling for lake trout while crossing the lake.

As he was busy throwing sheep to the washers, a young fellow from the neighboring village happened that way, and becoming somewhat interested in the process, was seduced by Tom G, inside of the yard, to try his hand at catching and tossing in sheep.

I know you have tried your best to do what I was foolish enough to ask you.

Or occasionally I divert myself with the fancy that I am of a still older day and that I have walked in from LichfieldI choose the name at hazardwith a tragedy in my pocket, to try my fortune.

Taking these and other things into consideration I finally resolved to resign my seat in the legislature and try my luck behind the footlights.

" Pedo brings him before the judgement seat of 14 Aeacus, who was holding court under the Lex Cornelia to try cases of murder and assassination.

I do not know how long I sat, rapt in this gloomy vision; but at last it occurred to me to rise and try the door, which to my astonishment was open.

"After spending more than a year in travelling, first through the mountainous district of our country, and then along the coast, and finding no change for the better, I determined to try the effect of a sea voyage.

Kneel then, and try your strength of Virtue.

I'll try all ways, and the Devil's in it, if I don't hit upon the right at last.

During the vacation she put a heavy penalty of raillery upon his swelling pride and vanity, sarcasm that tried the paternal patience as well as his own.

Let us try another method of making the chalk tell us its own history.

'I daresay there's a lot in that,' said Cricker, wondering why she did not try that plan with young La France.

Faith, Master, I must deal in the black Art then, for no human means will do'tand now I talk of the black Art, Master, try your Power once more with my Landlady.

Beauty, which others desire and try every means to obtain, to me has been a source of untold misery.

"Yes, and you needn't look at me as if I were some sort of a bug you hadn't ever seen before and didn't approve of, because I've seen you try that high-and-mighty trick too often for it to work with me.

They try all things, ever looking for something which the soul may endure.

From them he also learned that king Symonides had a fair young daughter, and that the following day was her birth-day, when a grand tournament was to be held at court, many princes and knights being come from all parts to try their skill in arms for the love of Thaisa, this fair princess.

And you," he added to Mr. Lane, "surely you know well enough not to try conclusions with me.

But before it came to that, he would try every expedient: he would strain every nerve.

It was rumoured that there was a difficulty in obtaining a judge to preside at the trial, as they all objected to being placed in the position of trying a man who was well-known to them and with whom most of them had been on friendly terms.

In pursuance, however, of a mode of treatment commended to their judgment, by frequent previous practice with the same patient, the good couple poured a pitcher of water over his fallen head; hauled him smartly up and down the room, first by a hand and then by a foot; singed his whiskers with a hot poker, held him head-downward for a time, and tried various other approved allopathic remedies.

He had tried all sorts of physical curesfor there is no disguising the fact that such suffering is physical, and so why should the cure not be, also?

The Coroner, the Assistant District-Attorney, and certain other officials who have been trying the "trap" game on the witnesses examined in the NATHAN murder case.

There were still to be seen, a few years ago, the marks left on the moors, where fields of corn and potatoes had been planted in that trying time.

1609 collocations for  try