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Sentences ending with attempt

I was of two minds to announce the scurvy trick he had played, but saw that I would lose rather than gain by the attempt. [9]
Tookaram afterwards tried to remove the silver amulets, the ear-studs, and the nose-ring; but he failed in his attempt. [5]
The King forbade the attempt! [5]
We want to raise $250,000--and that is a great task to attempt. [5]
But we can perceive that he scarcely possessed the strength and fortitude needful for success in such an attempt. [5]
I'll get her out or lose my life in the attempt! [13]
And if enough of the mass would join me to make the extirpation possible, then I should be a rascal to do otherwise than help in the attempt. [5]
Through the action of our disloyal citizens, the working-men of Europe have been subjected to severe trials, for the purpose of forcing their sanction to that attempt. [7]
In the case of his raising any difficulties, but not otherwise, shall Zoe make the attempt. [10]
There is, however, no hint of humor, and only a mild suggestion of the author of the Innocents Abroad in this early attempt. [5]

Short sentences using attempt

I shan't attempt to. [9]
Let us attempt the latter. [7]
Let none attempt it. [7]
You shun the attempt! [10]
I attempt no argument. [7]
Why attempt it? [4]

Sentences containing attempt two or more times

The damage from the current exaggeration of equality is that the attempt to realize the dogma in fact--and the attempt is everywhere on foot--can lead only to mischief and disappointment. [4]
He urged her not to attempt to influence Mr. Trollop in any way, and explained that whatever she might attempt in that direction would surely be used against her and with damaging effect. [5]
Orsini's attempt on Louis Napoleon and John Brown's attempt at Harper's Ferry were, in their philosophy, precisely the same. [7]
I believed I knew what project they would attempt, because it was plainly the thing I would attempt myself if I were in their places and as ignorant as they were. [5]
Why, London's attempt at good lighting is almost as bad as London's attempt at rapid transit. [5]

More example sentences with the word attempt in them

An attempt on your life, great Caesar; but we have him fast! [10]
At that time you were wise enough not to attempt to pass comment upon accidents in business affairs which are, if deplorable, inevitable. [9]
Promise me, as you value me as an ally, that you will not attempt his life. [10]
I particularly advised you to use your cavalry and light artillery upon his communications, and attempt to cut off his supplies and engage him at an advantage. [7]
The sweet violet you inclosed came safely to hand, but it was so dry, and mashed so flat, that it crumbled to dust at the first attempt to handle it. [7]
Astruc was sixty-nine years old when he published his "Conjectures," the first attempt, we are told, to decide the authorship of the Pentateuch showing anything like a discerning criticism. [3]
Laura's few friends wrote to her or came and talked with her, and pleaded with her to retire while it was yet time, and not attempt to face the gathering storm. [5]
We, the majority, would not strive to dissolve the Union; and if any attempt is made, it must be by you, who so loudly stigmatize us as disunionists. [7]
I said we would leave the village at 3 or 4 P.M. on the morrow; meantime he could notify the guides, and also let the public know of the attempt which we proposed to make. [5]
Sentence of death would have been more welcome to him than this supercilious check to a hazardous attempt, which he had looked upon as daring and heroic. [10]
Before setting to work to prepare my speeches it was necessary to make an attempt to familiarize myself with the seemingly unprecedented line of argument Krebs had evolved--apparently as disconcerting to his friends as to his opponents. [9]
There is a wonderful future before you, whose variety let Time, not me, attempt to reveal. [11]
To-day the good woman could not quite make up her mind whether it would be wiser to warn Dada against Marcus and desire her to repel any advances he might attempt to make, or to let bygones be bygones. [10]
The firm "Yes" with which she answered, and her indignant exclamation as she repulsed Hanno's premature attempt at tenderness, might have been heard by the hawk even at a greater distance. [10]
Renewing the attempt with the other war-club, that also was broken, but the bear fell senseless. [5]
He got out, with a poor attempt at a swagger, without his customary protestations of duty and humble offers of service. [9]
Dry night and wind steady enough to require no change in sail; but this A.M. an attempt to lower it proved abortive. [5]
But an attempt will at any rate be worth making. [10]
Even my wife, who saw no insolence in Margaret's attempt, applauded Mrs. Fletcher's spirit. [4]
Shall a man who in his younger days has written poetry, or what passed for it, continue to attempt it in his later years? [6]
Some of them, who did not attempt peremptorily to choke the a processes made the startling discovery that they were not, after all, so shocked by his doctrines as they had at first supposed. [9]
Brigond was considering whether it were better, with his scant chart, to attempt the bay, or to take small boats and make for the shore. [11]
All his hopes were wrecked, for this meant that Omar still ruled and that the attempt on the Khaliff's life had failed. [10]
If the prisoner were to take advantage of his freedom and attempt to escape, the jailer's feelings would be hurt, and public opinion would hardly approve the prisoner's conduct. [4]
Commands, threats, punishments, were out of the question with her; the mere physical effects of crossing her will betrayed themselves in such changes of expression and manner that it would have been senseless to attempt to govern her in any such way. [6]
This time he went straight to the window, looked at it, tried the stanchions, and then, with an amused attempt at being cunning and hiding his own vigilance, he asked me, with laborious hypocrisy, if I had seen Captain Lancy pass the window. [11]
The crippled rider went one way; the one frustrated in his attempt to get the carbine rode another, Venters thought he made out a third rider, carrying a strange-appearing bundle and disappearing in the sage. [13]
But as he went downstairs he halted on the, landing, his hand going to his forehead, a reflex movement significant of a final attempt to achieve the hitherto unattainable feat of imagining her as his wife. [9]
And so two well-equipped and heavily freighted natures may be the best of companions to each other, and yet must never attempt to come into closer union. [6]
Melissa knew full well that any attempt now to separate Philip from Serapion would be futile; however, she would not leave the last chance untried, and asked him gravely whether he had forgotten his mother's tomb. [10]
Why not as well die in the attempt to break up a wretched servitude to a perverted nervous movement as in any other way? [6]
We might as well attempt without any definition to decide whether a certain number of houses should be called a village, town, or city. [1]
You know as well as I that there is no money to pay them," said he, with a certain pompous attempt at severity which characterized his kind nature. [9]
There was a weak attempt at applause, but it died early. [5]
I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. [7]
That is the way all angry greenhorns and incompetent persons attempt to settle matters. [6]
She said she was thankful that I had what would save me from drudgery, and that some other time I should tell her about it.--I never made a greater failure in an attempt to produce a sensation. [6]
The building, indeed, was symbolic of a decadent and bewildered Puritanism in its pathetic attempt to keep abreast with the age, to compromise with anarchy, merely achieving a nondescript medley of rounded, knob-like towers covered with mulberry-stained shingles. [9]
A woman who was not property, who resisted the attempt to be turned into property, was an anomaly in Ditmar's universe. [9]
The first attempt was made by a layman, whose studies we might have supposed would scarcely have led him to such an investigation. [6]
But the attempt was frustrated, for some Roman lictors who had just come up stood in their way, and sent them to the southern side of the street of Hermes, to mingle with the gaping crowd under the arcade. [10]
When the tale was finished the Milesian did not attempt to conceal his strong disapprobation, and told Zopyrus that his most unseasonable love of fighting might be followed by the saddest consequences. [10]
They said it was a dangerous stream to cross, now, because its quicksands were liable to swallow up horses, coach and passengers if an attempt was made to ford it. [5]
The attempt in Virginia partook more of the character of a temporary adventure. [4]
It was all very well for one man to run vast risks and attempt quixotic enterprises, but neither he nor his countrymen had any right to expect Europe to embroil itself on his particular account. [11]
It is a very thoughtless thing to say that the physician stands to the divine in the same light as the divine stands to the physician, so far as each may attempt to handle subjects belonging especially to the other's profession. [6]
My last attempt upon Richmond was to get McClellan, when he was nearer there than the enemy was, to run in ahead of him. [7]
She rocked herself upon a chair, wringing her hands and weeping bitterly, but Kit made no attempt to comfort her and remained quite bewildered. [12]
Lempriere drew himself up with a slashing attempt at composure, but ended by flaming from head to foot, his face shining like a cock's comb, the perspiration standing out like beads upon his forehead, his eyes gone blind with confusion. [11]
Not to give up all the questions I was determined to solve, I made an attempt also to work into the Little Gentleman's chamber. [6]
This fashion of trust and of honesty so impressed the artist that he said he should make an attempt to have it introduced elsewhere. [4]
There, indeed, was Trixton Brent, staring at them from the end of the hall, and making no attempt to approach them. [9]
There is a trinity--Brahma, Shiva, and Vishnu--independent powers, apparently, though one cannot feel quite sure of that, because in one of the temples there is an image where an attempt has been made to concentrate the three in one person. [5]
A great riot took place when an attempt was made by some fastidious and exclusive egotists to introduce partitions which should partially divide one portion of these receptacles into individual compartments. [6]
If I attempt to talk across a room I find myself turning this way and that, and thus at alternate periods I have part of the audience behind me. [5]
In her attempt to seize upon a reality she looked out of the window. [9]
She had come to see him, and such was the faith with which he inspired her--now that she was once more in his presence--that she made no attempt to hide the fact. [9]
It pains me to report the events which took place when the master made his rash attempt to maintain his authority. [6]
He had come to put the last touches to the works he had begun, and proposed to make a fresh attempt to win the favor of the man whom he now knew to be the Emperor. [10]
True, her attempt to persuade Frau Lerch to accompany her remained futile. [10]
Religion, he began to perceive, was an undertaking, are attempt to find unity and harmony of the soul by adopting, after mature thought, a definite principle in life. [9]
We cannot attempt to keep you here; we should thereby only injure ourselves without benefitting you. [10]
Pierre went up to him, though he knew his attempt would be vain. [2]
Despite my attempt to hide this sense of superiority they were swift to discover it; and perhaps it is to my credit as well as theirs that they did not resent it. [9]
I would attempt to exemplify the influence of individual humors and passions--some of them among the highest, and others certainly the basest that agitate humanity--upon the march of great events, upon general historical results at certain epochs, and upon the destiny of eminent personages. [6]
I don't attempt to excuse myself, Carry, but my sin has been in holding on to my post. [9]
Thus, the attempt to establish a presumption against giving poisons to sick persons was considered as equivalent to condemning the use of these substances. [6]
We don't want to dissolve it, and if you attempt it we won't let you. [7]
She had hoped to discover the identity of the man who had taken Lise to Gruber's, but she did not attempt to continue the conversation. [9]
This deliberate attempt to crush genius would inevitably react on itself. [9]
Without any attempt to conceal from the valet the strong excitement that mastered him, Charles at last impatiently approached the window and looked down into the Haidplatz. [10]
In an attempt to bring home to myself, as well as to my readers, a realization of what American participation in this war means or should mean. [9]
There is more to be said about the chances for a successful marriage in these days, but I'm not going to dwell on that now, or attempt to shoulder off my shortcomings on my bringing up, on the civilization in which we have lived. [9]
It were best to attempt to record the intangible things; the golden-green light, the perfumes, and the faint musical laughter which we can hear if we listen. [9]
It was useless to attempt to disperse it with the assurance that Father Damon was better; it patiently waited to see for itself. [4]
And by this time I have got myself so tangled up in the intricacies of this extraordinary case that I shall have to give up any further attempt to advise you--I might get confused and fail to make myself understood. [5]
In view of this, I think it is best for me not to attempt appearing in Washington till the result of that ceremony is known. [7]
It was in this park that that fellow with an unpronounceable name made the attempt upon the Russian Czar's life last spring with a pistol. [5]
Amuse yourself with this little book, and take it as an apology for my silence," said Ambulinia, "while I attempt to answer this volume of consolation. [5]
The history of this great State, the renown of those great men who have stood here, and have spoken here, and have been heard here, all crowd around my fancy, and incline me to shrink from any attempt to address you. [7]
Now, there being this broad difference between us, I do not pretend, in addressing myself to you Kentuckians, to attempt proselyting you; that would be a vain effort. [7]
You know that this attempt to tell the truth about one of the most fascinating occupations in the world has not been without its dangers. [4]
Antinous recalled all this and determined to venture on an attempt to see again the maiden whose image filled his heart and brain. [10]
But above all things, he has taken the sole control of the empire of France into his hands and made it a tolerably free land--for people who will not attempt to go too far in meddling with government affairs. [5]
Still, I fear, they must be satisfied with what is offered: my palette affords no brighter tints; were t to attempt to deepen the reds, or burnish the yellows, I should but botch. [14]
Any one of these three conditions would stave off recognition by foreign powers, until we had ourselves abandoned the attempt to reduce the South to obedience. [6]
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred? [6]
The deer have their established runways, as I said; and, when they are disturbed in their retreat, they are certain to attempt to escape by following one which invariably leads to some lake or stream. [4]
Where hostility to the United States, in any interior locality, shall be so great and universal as to prevent competent resident citizens from holding the Federal offices, there will be no attempt to force obnoxious strangers among the people for that object. [7]
He had, in the telegram, merely urged the senator himself to see Mr. Hunt, and to make one more attempt to restrain the loyalty to that candidate of Messrs. Bascom and Botcher. [9]
The people of the South have too much of good sense and good temper to attempt the ruin of the government rather than see it administered as it was administered by the men who made it. [7]
It was not the Sidney Dallam of the counting-room who told that story, and Honora listened with strange sensations which she did not attempt to define. [9]
The physician visited the sick, the convalescent made his first attempt, leaning on a friendly arm, to walk from his bedroom to the "viridarium," and alms were given and received. [10]
In Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain makes the period of his study from two to two and a half years, but this is merely an attempt to magnify his dullness. [5]
People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception. [4]
He had marked the man's charitable action, and admired his attempt to cover it. [9]
Every attempt of the man who had once held so proud a position to get his release, by an act of the senate, proved vain. [10]
The overpowering of the little garrison in the storehouse of Pithom had occurred under specially favorable circumstances, which could hardly be expected to happen again, so the original plan must be changed, and an attempt made to take a circuit around the fortifications. [10]
Now he frustrated the kind Requesens's attempt at mediation, and it was also his fault that two provinces had publicly revolted from the Holy Church. [10]
The eldest made the first attempt, and with a rushing noise she fled through the air. [5]

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