10272 examples of attempt to in sentences

"You must not attempt to muzzel the press, or take away our blood-bought liberties.

They must resist the studied attempt to humiliate Turkey and therefore Islam, under the false pretext of ensuring Armenian independence.

Now I would not deny nor attempt to deny that change of occupation of body or mind is of itself an amusement, and one too of great value.

She made not the faintest attempt to free herself, but her hands were hard clenched.

The question presented was whether the party should attempt to quit the group in the boats, or whether they should build a little on the hulk, deck her over, and make use of this altered craft, to return to the northward.

It is interesting as showing a parallel to the cycles of miracle plays, which attempt to cover the same vast ground.

Our only choice, in such a situation, might be to attempt to preserve just the initial insight that our maps are mere models, and that we have the ability to draw new ones whenever we wish.

but that to attempt to recover a thousand pounds from a man thus reduced by accident to utter ruin, and who had not a shilling left in the world, would be 'as foolish as it was tyrannical'.

If you will give me the time, I will attempt to give you an idea of his mighty workings in the field of science.

It happened that, in the mean time, five deputies, with two plebeian tribunes, had come hither, to charge Fabius, in the name of the senate, not to attempt to pass the Ciminian forest.

He will arrest suspicious persons prowling about the post or camp at any time, all parties to a disorder occurring on or near his post, and all, except authorized persons, who attempt to enter the camp at night, and will turn over ro the corporal of the guard all persons arrested.

"Your audacious attempt to steal away a young lady calls upon me to justify my own character in punishing you.

Her narration of the dream was given with the happiest effect, and in her attempt to conceal her uneasiness and her affected contempt of the dream in these lines: Un songe, me devroisje inquiéter d'un songe?

It is a good rule in our civil courts, that a party is not permitted to impeach his own witness; and it is but an inconsiderable variation of the letter of this rule, and obviously no violation of its spirit and policy to say, that no party is permitted to attempt to benefit his cause by a witness whom he has himself impeached.

Thus much on my attempt to revive the old Chorus on the tragic stage.

Panting and choking, he had made one last desperate attempt to break the grip that pinned him down; and then lay spent and inert except for an occasional hoarse gasp, or convulsive movement of his massive frame.

(10) War is only inevitable in the sense that other forms of error and passionreligious persecution for instanceare inevitable; they cease with better understanding, as the attempt to impose religious belief by force has ceased in Europe.

Even then I did not attempt to predict just when I should begin to commit my story to paper.

" To generalize about the Romantic movement, may seem about as practical as to attempt to make a trigonometrical survey of the Kingdom of Dreams.

It can never be exhausted by any theory, and only an intuitive criticism could dare to attempt to characterize its ideals.

I do not for a moment believe that Blount speaks the truth, but if he does, then his failure to attempt to bring to justice the human fiends concerned brands him!

It was his habit to plunge into every conflict with a radical's recklessness, and his present impulse was to attempt to carry his point by storm.

I distinctly saw you catch your son's hands with your own; he wrenched the right one away, and raised it; then you fell, but he did not strike you, or attempt to.

Little by little he has worn away her suspicions that he planned murder, and her only remaining anger against him is because he did not attempt to search for Thurstane; but even for that she is obliged to see some excuse in the terrible word "Apaches.

It leads to an attempt to carry on a four-servant house with two servants, or a three servant establishment with one.

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