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Sentences starting with striving

Striving to peer through the infinite azure, Alternate turning to earthward and falling, Measuring life with Damastian measure, Finite, appalling. [11]
Striving to hide my uneasiness, I made my farewells to Madame Chouteau's sons and daughters and their friends, and with Colonel Chouteau I left the hall and began to walk towards Monsieur Gratiot's, hoping against hope that Nick had gone there to change. [9]
Striving to tell him about her past life, and ready to talk endlessly about her husband, of his prowess in the hunt, of his strength and beauty, she also strove to find English words for the purpose, and Richard supplied them with uncommon willingness. [11]

Sentences ending with striving

What straggles of young ambition, finding no place for its energies, or feeling its incapacity to reach the ideal towards which it was striving! [6]
For none of these things was she striving. [11]
If we knew, there would be no virtue in striving. [9]

Sentences containing striving two or more times

And all my life I must be striving, striving, until I am laid in the grave. [9]

More example sentences with the word striving in them

And yet and yet against the tumult and beating of this passion striving to throb down thought, thought strove. [9]
We are now, with the help of our allies, striving to banish these things from the face of the earth. [9]
Yet even while, with one hand resting on the back of the chair and the other pressed upon her panting bosom, she was striving to find the right words, Don John's glance brightened. [10]
Those of us who are striving to reorganize our beliefs and make them tenable, do not bother our heads about miracles. [9]
It is striving which enables us to enter. [5]
Mrs. Constable was watching him mutely, striving to read in his grave eyes the effect of her pleadings. [9]
She stopped up,--it was very tempting,--late and later, striving to beguile the lonely night with some employment, till her weak eyes failed to read or to sew, and could only weep in solitude over the dead that were not. [14]
But perhaps it was only Satan striving to hinder him from approaching the Most High with so noble an offering. [10]
No; but striving unceasingly and of your own free will, in the sweat of your brow, to reach the high goal, to work out to its fulfilment and fruition everything that is best in your soul and mind. [10]
There were quarrels, too, the men striving to push one another from the easier paths; and deeds sublime when some straggler clutched at the bole of a tree for support, and was helped onward through excruciating ways. [9]
Each drop tried to spread out and occupy as much space as possible, but others striving to do the same compressed it, sometimes destroyed it, and sometimes merged with it. [2]
Bob had dared to hope for such an opportunity: had made up his mind during supper, while striving to be agreeable, just what he would do if the opportunity came. [9]
It was new to him--he had never formulated it before--that pity and longing and striving were a justification and a proof. [9]
She was striving to grasp the momentous and unlooked-for fact of her friend's unchanged attitude. [9]
He was striving to do the same thing now but, ere he could finish, his mind always reverted to thoughts of Kasana. [10]
Joshua was commissioned to detain the bands of rioters who, amid threats and curses, were striving to force their way past the warriors. [10]
He, too, seemed to be striving for a common footing. [9]
It is impossible to be sad when she is by, and she is devoted to me, and dreads my blame, and is always striving to win my approbation. [10]
Something warped and thwarted the emotion which would have been love in another, no doubt; but that such an emotion was striving with her against all malign influences which interfered with it the old woman had a perfect certainty in her own mind. [6]
Moved by such thoughts, he had smiled as he told himself that the Minorite seemed to be earnestly striving to win him for the monastery. [10]
They have no thought for the toiling or spinning, Striving for bread that is dust in the gaining, They have won all that is well worth the winning-- Past all distaining. [11]
The lintel of this house had been marked for salvation, the scourge had passed it by: the scourge of social striving which lay like a blight on a free people. [9]
Providence compelled all these men, striving to attain personal aims, to further the accomplishment of a stupendous result no one of them at all expected--neither Napoleon, nor Alexander, nor still less any of those who did the actual fighting. [2]
Strange, indeed, that the striving life of these leaders of European Revolution had been suddenly cut off in its vigor. [9]
A sense of the striving and the suffering deeply possessed him; and this grew the more intense as he gained some knowledge of the forces at work-forces of pity, of destruction, of perdition, of salvation. [8]
The light of the sky above was a soft radiance, as of a happy Arcadian land; the fire of the toil beneath was the output of human striving, an intricate interweaving of vital forces which, like some Titanic machine, wrought out in pain--a vast destiny. [11]
Antoinette had inherited the energies as well as the features of the St. Gre's, yet there was a painful moment as she stood there, striving to put down the agitation the sight of me gave her. [9]
He, sat and talked of many things: of the great war that was agonizing the nation; of the strong man who, harassed and suffering himself, was striving to guide it, likening Lincoln unto a physician. [9]
She was still struggling, groping, wondering, striving to accustom herself to the higher light of another world. [9]
Some drove away striving to bite from their lips the tell-tale smile which arose in spite of them; others tried to look happy, despite the sentence of doom to which they had listened. [9]
He was not striving for communion with the highest things, he felt no humble desire for inward purification; far different motives influenced him. [10]
We were both striving against each other, and I won--at a tremendous cost. [9]
Wilhelm had walked silently behind the other two, for his heart was deeply stirred, joy and sorrow were striving for the mastery. [10]
Isaac Worthington was silent for a while: he was striving to calm himself, for an indefinable something had shaken him. [9]
The most pathetic sight in the business world is that of a bankrupt, old and broken, pursuing with always deluded expectations the remnants of his fortune, striving to make new combinations, involved in lawsuits, alternately despairing, alternately hopeful in the chaos of his affairs. [4]
For a moment she stood beside it, with her head high; confronting him and striving to steady herself for speech. [9]
Then came a shadow and the terrible superhuman striving of his spirit to speak. [13]
When, with several school-mates, I reached the scene of the disaster, the fire had already been mastered, but many hands were striving to remove the rubbish and save the workmen buried underneath. [10]
And though they rode swiftly, the wide surf of snow was ever between them and the chase, and their striving availed nothing. [11]
Is this the reward of victory for our striving and our long wrestling? [10]
A nearer view reveals a flush of green; nature is already striving to heal. [9]
His love and respect were hers alone; yet she saw in him a soul-sick man, and persistently rejected Philotas, who wooed her with the same zeal as before, and the other suitors who were striving to win the wealthy heiress. [10]
Brand us as rascals trying to enrich ourselves with politics, and proclaim yourselves saints nobly striving to get back the rights of the people. [9]
Three or four policemen fought their way to the spot, striving to clear the tracks, bewildered and impotent in the face of the alien horde momentarily growing more and more conscious of power. [9]
That winter John Paul spent striving in vain for a better ship, and imbibing tactics from the French admirals. [9]
I had several opportunities of perceiving how this nervousness was ingrained in her constitution, and how acutely she suffered in striving to overcome it. [14]
Young men and old had come hither, striving to keep back the thoughts of dear ones left behind, whom they might never see again. [9]
The deep instincts of womanhood were striving to grope their way to the surface of her being through all the alien influences which overlaid them. [6]
In certain campaigns of past centuries, and even of this, it has been hero-worship that impelled the rank and file rather than any high sympathy with the cause they were striving for. [9]
The soft-toned bells of it seemed an expression of its life,--so far removed from our own striving and fighting existence in Kentucky. [9]
The unworthy wife of an unworthy husband, the woman Sirona, is gone from me for ever, and I was striving to drive her image from my soul, to annihilate it and dissipate it--but in vain! [10]
Every day and night he heard that the spirit of the Lord would probably soon quit striving with him, and leave him out. [4]
She opened her mouth, closed it and stared at him, struck by his expression, striving uneasily to fathom hidden depths in his remark. [9]
Were it not more simple to accept what life sent in its orderly course instead of striving for an impossible and shadowy ideal? [9]
A benignant sorrow made his voice in perfect temper with the pensive striving of this latest day of spring. [11]
Have patience, a little longer for that which I am striving after, for you, and for me, and not last, for our son, is so great, so stupendously great and difficult that it might well outweigh years of longing. [10]
When he at last spoke of making the people happy as her husband, she withdrew her hand, gazed timidly at his manly features, glowing with joyful excitement, and then as if striving to maintain her calmness, fixed her eyes upon the ground. [10]
I did not know then that two strains of blood were striving in me for the mastery,--two! [6]
But while the knight was striving to accustom himself to this wholly novel circle of ideas, Barbara, with passionate impetuosity, clasped his right hand and placed it on the crucifix which hung on her rosary. [10]
Now he knew it, and was striving toward the goal attainable by the artist alone among mortals--to hold intercourse with the deity, and by creations full of its essence elevate the world to its grandeur and beauty. [10]
There is something irresistibly funny about predestination; about men who are striving and learning and soberly voting upon measures with which they have as little to do as guinea-pigs. [9]
Again, in the intervals of quiet, I sat with my elbows on the table and my head in my hands, striving to allay the throbbing in my temples. [9]
Breathing hard, as if stunned by her words, the tribune remained standing on the threshold where the terrible lady had vanished from his sight, and then, striving to regain his composure, pushed back the curling locks from his brow. [10]
For seventy-two years I have been striving to acquire that higher education which stands for modesty and diffidence, and it doesn't work. [5]
Each intent upon his own business or pleasure, and striving the while by hook or crook to keep the ground from slipping beneath his feet. [9]
Now she understood his anger; it was like the anger of a fiercely rushing river striving to break a dam and invade the lands below with devastating floods. [9]
He had devoted himself and his son to a life of penance, hoping and striving that so Glycera's soul might be snatched from damnation, and now he knew that she herself had earned her title to Heaven. [10]
This had made her voice so hollow and hoarse that it was difficult to understand her as, with fervid eloquence, vainly striving to be heard by absent-minded Kuni, she began: "She surpassed even Maravella the Spaniard. [10]
That night in her room she became aware for the first time of another world, restless, fascinating, striving, full of opportunities. [4]
Here Nature hides her internal striving under a smother of white for many months in every year, when what is now gold in the sun will be a soft--sometimes, too, a hard-shining coverlet like impacted wool. [11]
Lost in reflection, he walked eastward with long and rapid strides, striving to reduce to order in his mind the impressions the visit had given him, only to find them too complex, too complicated by unlooked-for emotions. [9]
Once or twice he paused in his packing to gaze at the face, striving to fathom the fleeting quality of her glance which the photograph had so strangely caught. [9]
We held our hands tight on our hearts, striving to call to mind some few of the words we had meditated with intent to speak them in defence of Herdegen. [10]
The noble man had recovered, and was striving with all his power to rescue brave Leyden. [10]
Above the glowing fuel a phoenix, also in brass, and in the likeness of an eagle, seemed striving to soar heavenwards. [10]
They were striving for the friendship of the Iroquois on the one hand, and for the trade of the Great West on the other. [11]
Above the prying eyes of men, above the world itself, he held her, striving to realize some little of the vast joy of this possession, and failing. [9]
Its gigantic limbs extended over the whole firmament, and seemed striving to clutch and stifle the world beneath. [10]
The daring youth did not lack strength, that was certain, and the couple who watched him with so much uneasiness soon understood that he was striving to overtake another and larger bark which was at some distance in front of him. [10]
Pharaoh's country was cursed with plagues, and his hosts were lost in the Red Sea, for striving to retain a captive people who had already served them more than four hundred years. [7]
He headed a current in art which was striving to destroy what had been proved and acknowledged, yet, though his creations were undeniably powerful, and even showed many other admirable qualities, instead of pleasing, satisfying, and ennobling, they repelled. [10]
On windy nights, cries, and sobs, and wailings seemed to go round the house, as of the dearly-beloved striving to force their way to her. [14]
To the two chief desires of my heart--: atonement to my father and union with Paula, I here add a third: the attainment of the loftiest goal that I may reach, by valiant striving to get as near to it as my strength will allow. [10]
Would he (she caught her breath at this thought) would he abandon that struggle with Isaac D. Worthington in which he was striving to maintain the mastery of the state by those very practices? [9]
He became surrounded by the ghosts of yesterdays; and at length he gave up striving with them, and let them storm upon him, until a line of pain cut deeply across his forehead, and bitterly and unconsciously he cried aloud,--"Hester, ah, Hester! [11]
We lay side by side striving to sleep, while distress of mind and a wounded heart brought the tears into my eyes. [10]
Nothing is beautiful but what is free, and he only is not free who is forever striving to check his inclinations--for the most part in vain--in order to live, as feeble cowards deem virtuously, justly and truthfully. [10]
A man was bound by the conditions governing the profession by which he earned his bread and butter and played his part in the world, while striving to reach the seats of honour in high places. [11]
His homely composure belied the alertness of his faculties; he was striving to adapt himself to the sudden broadening and quickening of the stream of his life, and he felt a certain excitement--although he did not betray it--in the presence of the financier. [9]
You know I've been striving to have a career, to get out of myself somehow, and have a career for myself. [4]
Suddenly her brain became hideously active as she lay, dry-upped, staring into the darkness, striving to convince herself that it could not be. [9]
I wanted to be free, I've been striving all my life to be free," she exclaimed passionately, and was silent an instant, inspecting him. [9]
Her mind went back to her first talk with him, in the garden, and she saw how her intuition had recognized in him then the spirit of a people striving to assert itself. [9]
There are somewhat awkward limits to true understanding as yet, but that sympathetic service which you render to both peoples, with a conscientious striving for impartiality, tempers even the wind of party warfare to the shorn lamb of political opposition. [11]
I was miserable, and somewhat appalled; resentful, yet striving to be gentle and conciliatory. [9]
The sun strove, and his very striving called up new vapors; the wind rent away the clouds, and brought new masses to surge about us; and the spectacle to right and left, above and below, changed with incredible swiftness. [4]
She was striving against something, she knew not what. [9]

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