1248 examples of attempt at in sentences

'I fine you a supper,' said Lancelot, 'for that execrable attempt at a pun.' 'Agreed!

Meanwhile the king had in 1185 made a further attempt at a permanent settlement of the distracted island.

It was an attempt at bullying on Astell's part, which I resisted, and successfully.

The lesson had been taught us long before by Philip II, who did not venture on an attempt at invading this country till he was master of the resources of the whole Iberian peninsula as well as of those of the Spanish dominions in Italy, in the Burgundian heritage, and in the distant regions across the Atlantic Ocean.

"'E ain't left it to me, I s'pose?" he said, with a feeble attempt at jocularity.

Gwarjak is built without any attempt at order or symmetry.

I would give instances, if I did not believe them to be well known, and that those who wanted them could select them for themselves; for there is no effort of an orator of any kind, of which there is not in our speeches, if not a perfect example, at least some attempt at and sketch of.

" Somewhat to her surprise, her attempt at playfulness had no notable success.

One of these groups is finished with domes; but this is an attempt at magnificence which, on so small a scale, is not deserving of imitation.

"You see, I don't hit you," said Mr. Billing, with a ghastly attempt at a smile.

In Alabama in 1827 a negro was convicted of rape at Tuscaloosa, and another in Washington County confessed after capture that while a runaway he had met Miss Winnie Caller, taken her from her horse, dragged her into the woods and butchered her "with circumstances too horrible to relate"; and at Mobile in 1849 a slave named Ben was sentenced to death for an attempt at rape upon a white woman.

His attempt at Margao News was not half as successful, basically because there was no significant local involvement and input in Margao.

Both the doctor and I were, however, satisfied that on the part of Miss A. there was no attempt at deception, and that the phenomenon, whatever might be the case as to identity, was a genuine manifestation of an intelligence independent of that of the girl.

We can think of but few classes of objects, even the most simple, in which some attempt at ornamentation is not made.

The novel points out the social complications of life, the influence of hereditary privileges and abuses, and how every attempt at reform is complicated by many interests, and is likely to fall into the hands of demagogues who use the workingmen for their own purposes.

'His lordship is not the man,' he said, with an attempt at his former manner, 'toto' 'To win the odd trick unless he holds six trumps,' Mr. Pomeroy cried.

The 'conditions' which this Medium demanded would have made any attempt at investigation a mere waste of time, and his terms of remuneration were, in addition, as we have before mentioned, prohibitory and suggestive of unwillingness to come before the Commission.

The plan succeeded so well that no attempt at a rescue was made.

" "He wouldn't hurt me," said Mr. Simpson, with an attempt at facetiousness.

" Mr. Rose swallowed an angry retort, and with an attempt at careless ease sauntered up the road with the miller to the shoemaker's.

This was the first sign of white men we had seen and it was evidently an attempt at mining, no one knows how long ago.

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I could not see either the impossibility or the danger, and as there was another yurt or shelter-house on the other side of the ravine, I determined to go on and make the attempt at least to cross.

But this feeble and un-Cass-like attempt at playful gallantry met with a sudden check.

But the Iroquois saw in this only another attempt at French conquest.

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