This paragraph began, in the Englishman's Magazine, with the following sentence: "We ourselfPETERin whose inevitable NET already Managers and R.A.s lie caught and flounderingand more peradventure shall flounderwere, in the humble times to which we have been recurring, small Fishermen indeed, essaying upon minnows; angling for quirks, not men.

Of course, I spent most of my leisure at the old house, though my heart ached more there than elsewhere; and I tried, with but poor success, I fear, to maintain a cheerful, confident manner, cracking my little jokes as of old, and even essaying to skirmish with Miss Oman.

The lawyer and the society young lady, essaying to descend the next hill brilliantly, barely escaped going over their horses' heads, and all four ladies were glad when they perceived that they were going homeward.

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

Between them and the rest of the world there will be nothing longer in common; they will establish on their frontier a police over books and journals, essaying to prevent the fatal introduction of an idea of liberty: the rest of the world will have for them neither political sympathies, nor moral sympathies, nor religious sympathies.

Adj. essaying &c v.; experimental &c 463; tentative, empirical, probationary.

From the 27th of November to the night of the 1st of December, General Meade moved to and fro in front of the formidable works of his adversary, feeling them with skirmishers and artillery, and essaying vainly to find some joint in the armor through which to pierce.

Essaying the leap, they fell far short of the edge, where the Devil lay panting.

"Who are you, that thus presumes to intrude among gentlemen, without invitation?" demanded Colonel Morton, ferociously essaying to cow down the stranger with his eye.

JOSIAH the Second, essaying a fancy portrait of the present Duke of PORTLAND (in his capacity of a coal-owner), was less fortunate in the likeness, and this afternoon handsomely withdrew it from circulation.

For women to seek to control men by the power of suffrage is like David essaying the armor of Saul.

Before essaying any of the longer or harder trips however, the traveler first of all generally goes to the Gorner-Grat, the rocky ridge that runs up from Zermatt to a point 10,290 feet high.

"This is not the same," rejoined the teacher, "don't you see the little tail at the bottom of it?" Aunt Comfort took off her silver spectacles, and gave the glasses of them a furious rub, then after essaying another look, exclaimed, "What, you don't mean dat 'ere little speck down at the bottom of it, does yer?"

Beyond doubt Virgil had felt the power of the Stoic creed; but he was essaying an epic poem, and he could not possibly dispense with the divine machinery as it stood in his great Homeric model.

I have sat whole weeks without sleep by the side of an athanor, to watch the moment of projection; I have made the first experiment in nineteen diving engines of new construction; I have fallen eleven times speechless under the shock of electricity; I have twice dislocated my limbs, and once fractured my skull, in essaying to fly[l]; and four times endangered my life by submitting to the transfusion of blood.

Yesterday when the boys came in with very earthy faces, and I questioned them, I found that they had stuck their precious noses in their mud pies, essaying to play mole and burrow literally.

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

The alternate baldness and exuberant, decorated, swaggering boldness (for Charlotte's style was never bolder than when she was essaying the impossible) alone betrayed the hand of an innocent woman.

Essaying the essay.

Essaying the essay.

But in essaying to write a book about the fourth dimension from any aspect but the mathematical, the author has put himself outside the pale of orthodox science, so he is under no compulsion to ignore a field so rich merely because it appears to be tainted by a certain amount of fallibility and is even under suspicion of fraud.

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.

It reveals to us the visions that were occupying the minds of the best men in the latter part of the exile, and the work they were essaying.

It was a counter-movement of Old Israel, essaying to stem the mad rush for riches.

Of the rest, our old Colonel is in Scotland, essaying ambitious pedestrian and equestrian feats upon his new leg.