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Sentences starting with tried

Tried this morning to read the full service to myself, with the Communion, but found it too much; am too weak, and get sleepy, and cannot give strict attention; so I put off half till this afternoon. [5]
Tried a razor strop-same result. [5]
Tried to give it to the Dryfoos family, and when I couldn't, I sold it to 'em. [8]
Tried to get in at half-price, but the man at the door looked at his teeth and said he was more'n ten year old. [6]
Tried to buy him. [9]

Sentences ending with tried

A vivacious, eager youth had duped her and had promised happiness to her sister instead of to her; it had been hard to bear--and yet, the Saviour of whom Hellos had told her, had been far more severely tried. [10]
Between ourselves, I've tried. [9]
It has been tried. [5]
Everything has been tried. [5]
I long for the moment to come when the experiment of the sea-air will be tried. [14]
If this eventually, prove to be the case at least some such experiment as the new British Labour Party has proposed for the Empire may be tried. [9]
Alone on the prairie for punishment--well, I should like to see it tried. [11]
Iras had provided poisoned pins which had speedily destroyed the animals upon which they had been tried. [10]
The man has not been tried. [5]
And if a man kill one of them by any chance, he is to go to England to be tried. [9]

Short sentences using tried

I've seen it tried before. [9]
Perhaps she had tried before. [11]
She tried, and tried again. [5]
I've tried, myself, to weariness. [5]
I have tried to rise. [14]
I tried to think. [11]
I have tried that. [5]
She tried to stop. [10]
She tried it--and she succeeded. [5]
She tried to save me--well? [11]

Sentences containing tried two or more times

I have tried, tried thousands and thousands of times; at--Richtberg, here, everywhere--deep as was my wrath! [10]
The man tried to mumble out some words--could not succeed; tried to express something with his obstructed hands--failed; paused a moment, then feebly tilted his head, in a meaning way, toward the corpse that lay nearest him. [5]
Desperately she tried to meet his gray eyes, in vain, desperately she tried again, fought herself as feeling and thought resurged in torment, and she succeeded, and then she knew. [13]
Why, she tried to learn you your book, she tried to learn you your manners, she tried to be good to you every way she knowed how. [5]
Macrinus here tried to excuse the spy, by remarking that this zealous official had only tried to set his services in a favorable light. [10]
The prisoner at the bar was charged with murdering the man Szczepanik; he was tried for murdering the man Szczepanik; he was fairly tried and justly condemned and sentenced to death for murdering the man Szczepanik. [5]
I tried to tell you all this before; three years ago I tried to tell you. [11]
Afterwards in the strange confusion, in my blind helplessness I tried to say, "But he loved me," and I tried to forgive you. [11]
When they first showed, last night, I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me; then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. [5]
She tried to read--it was no use; she tried to spin-her fingers trembled; she sorted the letters in the office again, and rearranged every letter and parcel and paper in its little pigeonhole--then did it all over again. [11]

More example sentences with the word tried in them

I knew two youths who tried to "kill their men" for no other reason--and got killed themselves for their pains. [5]
A sample: a youth staked out a claim and tried to sell half for L5; no takers; he stuck to it fourteen days, starving, then struck it rich and sold out for L10,000. [5]
Now, disperse to your homes, or every man of you will be arrested and tried by court-martial. [11]
Your Admiralty and your government first pardoned the man, and then gave him freedom on the island which you tried to prevent; and now they turn round and confine him to his acres. [11]
Ma'am Allen, (the young rogue sticks to that name, in speaking of the gentleman with the diamond,) Ma'am Allen tried to peek into it one day when she left it on the sideboard. [6]
No one but young Hillyer had been intimate with Flint Buckner; no one had really had a quarrel with him; he had affronted every man who had tried to make up to him, although not quite offensively enough to require bloodshed. [5]
I don't believe you'll think much about what I did n't do,--because I couldn't,--but remember that at any rate I tried honestly to serve you. [6]
I know that you will be true to it because I have tried your strength. [9]
How often when you have tried to get a "rise" out of somebody opposite have you not had your neighbor cut in across you with some private depressing observation to your next neighbor! [4]
The immense sufferings you endured from the first days of September till the middle of February you never tried to conceal from me, and I well understood. [7]
No one has yet tried to bind them! [10]
It was only yesterday that he had tried to moderate Olympius' sanguine dreams, and had said to him: "It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe! [10]
I am 59 years old; yet I never had a friend before who put out a hand and tried to pull me ashore when he found me in deep waters. [5]
In four years,--four years of battle-days,--his endurance, his fertility of resources, his magnanimity, were sorely tried and never found wanting. [6]
In four years--four years of battle days--his endurance, his fertility of resource, his magnanimity, were sorely tried, and never found wanting. [7]
Spite of the wrong he had done her, how gladly, had she not been lost to art, she would now have tried upon him its elevating, consoling power! [10]
Jim said bees wouldn't sting idiots; but I didn't believe that, because I had tried them lots of times myself, and they wouldn't sting me. [5]
He said he would watch out, and if they tried to come any such game on him he knowed of a place six or seven mile off to stow me in, where they might hunt till they dropped and they couldn't find me. [5]
True, the duke would have preferred to induce her to go to Spain, and tried to persuade her to do so by the assurance that the King himself desired to receive her there. [10]
He said he would have me educated, and bought me books, and I tried to read them. [9]
Becky supposed she would be glad of that, and she tried to believe she was glad of it, but she found she was not certain. [5]
He had not worked off a cake; yet he had tried all the tricks of the trade, even to the washing of a hermit; but the hermit died. [5]
I went to work now to learn the shape of the river; and of all the eluding and ungraspable objects that ever I tried to get mind or hands on, that was the chief. [5]
As the afternoon wore on there were silences, when Honora, by staring over the waters, tried to collect her thoughts. [9]
With her the words would have been wrenched forth from her heart, scarred into the paper with the bitterness of a spirit tried beyond enduring. [11]
Tom said the words which Hertford put into his mouth from time to time, and tried hard to acquit himself satisfactorily, but he was too new to such things, and too ill at ease to accomplish more than a tolerable success. [5]
At the first words O'Ryan put a hand on himself and tried to grasp the meaning of it all, but his entrance and the subsequent applause had confused him. [11]
I tried to woo her, but she cut my words short, said I was a noble man, and a worthy suitor but--" "There came the but. [10]
Gazing into vacancy with wild eyes and chattering teeth, she tried to make cakes and mould dumplings out of the snow, which she probably took for flour. [10]
Melissa stood mute, with tearful eyes, while Alexander, quite beside himself, tried to relieve his rage and grief by empty threats. [10]
Hylda had spoken with sorrowful decision, and then this pause had come, in which Faith tried to gain composure and strength. [11]
Tom tried again, with soothing words in his mouth, and was repulsed again. [5]
Even to hammer with precision is no easy matter, as every one who has tried to learn carpentry will admit. [1]
Tom had struggled with his pride a few days, and tried to "whistle her down the wind," but failed. [5]
He inspired her with an instinctive fear; and she tried to imagine, in contrast, the erect and soldierly figure of General Chiltern performing the same office. [9]
We tried him with all sorts of lines and a piece of pork, but he declined to take hold. [5]
And this side, with all reverence and patriotism, the author has tried to take. [9]
The advice seemed wise--at least he tried to persuade himself that it was--because it promised honor and fame, but in reality he wished to follow it because it would bring her for whom his soul yearned nearer to him. [10]
I fancy she will have tried to reach the sea, and to get to Egypt or possibly to Alexandria; and there--you know what the Greek city is--she will fall into utter ruin. [10]
He tried his wife's love and patience as a man must to whom the future is easy in the mass but terrible as it translates itself piecemeal into the present. [8]
Of all those who, with every means at their disposal, have tried to conquer Lee, he is the only one who has in any manner succeeded. [9]
First among those who crowded round her at Carillon that day were Jowett and Osterhaut, who had tried to warn her. [11]
Her fingers, however, which used to be so skilful, either broke the threads they tried to spin, or lay for hours idle in her lap, while she was lost in dreams. [10]
In the charge which the New Englander ordered, Iberville and Perrot saw Gering, and they tried hard to reach him. [11]
Wherever we halted where there was a crowd, he would give me a look which said plainly: "if that thing could be tried over again now, with this kind of folk, you would see a different result. [5]
Now she knew where he was in hiding-and she tried to laugh, for the pain she felt seemed too acute and burning for tears to allay or cool it. [10]
And they laughed when Mr. Clarence tried to explain that he had not long since been the dapper captain of the State Dragoons. [9]
Since the day when Louis had tried to kill George Fournel, life had been a different thing for them both. [11]
Ah, I know what you would say: he tried to kill you; he made you fight him. [11]
I knew exactly what would happen if I tried to build a fire. [4]
When she confessed what withheld her from doing so, he at first tried to convince her by opposing reasons, but usually strength to continue the interchange of thought soon failed him. [10]
Eager to know what their contents were, she took them up, drew a stool to the window, and tried to read. [10]
Let me hear what other reasons you have for believing that your uncle tried to do away with you. [9]
These, no doubt, were to ride round the morass, and ford the river at a favorable spot so as to attack the vessel from the west, while the others tried to reach it from the east with the aid of the palm-trunks. [10]
Two new gowns were ordered, to be tried on at Sutcliffe, and as many hats, and an ulster, and heaven knows what else. [9]
I heard you were ill and I tried to get up and go to you; but it was not possible. [11]
Indeed, my clothes were by no means handsome, and save for my well-shaven face and clean handkerchief I was an ill-favoured spectacle; but I tried to bear my shoulders up as we marched through dark reeking corridors, and presently came suddenly into well-lighted passages. [11]
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]
But as we went back to the camp again he told me how the French had tried once to conquer this vast country and failed, leaving to the Spaniards the endless stretch beyond the Mississippi called Louisiana, and this part to the English. [9]
The latter, as well as Appenzelder, still frequently called upon her, and tried to diminish her grief over the injury to her voice by telling her of hundreds of similar cases which had resulted favourably. [10]
Terror and grief weighed on thousands of hearts, while some tried to make a profit out of the prevailing anxiety, and others--many others--went forth, as light-hearted as ever, in pursuit of pleasure and amusement. [10]
And at last we were so worried and harassed that we tried to tell the whole thing, Satan and all--but no, it wouldn't come out. [5]
It is time we tried to understand each other. [4]
I said, if we tried to cut wages down to a fifty-four hour basis we'd have a strike on our hands in every mill in Hampton,--didn't I? [9]
For some time we tried the hook-rope and other means of scaling it, but without success--that is, without perfect success. [5]
We tried all we could to fill him so full that he would have no room to spare for a fortnight, but it was a failure. [5]
Going into Cairo, we came near killing a steamboat which paid no attention to our whistle and then tried to cross our bows. [5]
But he has ways now, and he has had them for a century, but I do not see that he has tried to make serious use of then. [5]
He said there wasn't another hole like that in the mountains --and he would have been right if the late mule had not tried to eat up the nitroglycerin. [5]
Seeing who it was--a widow who, with no demureness, had tried without avail to bring Luke Claridge to her--her lips pressed together in a bitter smile, and she said to her nephew clearly: "Patience Spielman hath little hope of thee, David. [11]
And indeed it was; he tried not to seem to see the looks or hear the remarks as he passed along, but they were food and drink to him. [5]
Her own mind was wandering when it should not, and recollections she had tried to strangle had sprung up once more. [9]
Philippus, quite undaunted, was trying to adjust the bandage over his wound, when Rustem suddenly flung his arms round his body and tried with all his might, and with foaming lips, to drag him down. [10]
And when he was tried three months later for murder, some one else said this for him, and the hearts of all, judge and jury, were so moved they knew not what to do. [11]
At dinner Stephen was tried still further. [9]
She said it was too theatrically ridiculous; and that I would never be able to keep my mouth shut; that I would be sure to let it out and it would get into the papers--and she tried to make me promise--"Promise what? [5]
To him she was the one being in the world worth struggling for; the bird to be caught on the wing, or coaxed into the nest, or snared into the net; and two of the three things he had tried without avail. [11]
I guess it was the hardest thing I ever tried since I've been working for you, but it's come off all right, hasn't it? [11]
And then there was the goose-rancher--a fellow who drove a hundred geese before him about the city, and tried to sell them. [5]
What angered him was that the coming of these visitors revived in his mind an unsettled question he always tried to stifle, one about which he always deceived himself. [2]
But now he was showing virtues,--if virtues they were,--and she tried to give him the benefit of the doubt. [9]
So the inquiry was shifted once more to the revelations made to the King--secrets which the court had tried again and again to force out of Joan, but without success. [5]
When the service was over, Kutuzov stepped up to the icon, sank heavily to his knees, bowed to the ground, and for a long time tried vainly to rise, but could not do so on account of his weakness and weight. [2]
If Mrs. Armour was not exactly sympathetic with her, she was quiet and forbearing, and General Armour, like Richard, tried to draw her out--but not on the same subjects. [11]
This discussion, which was not at all by way of a jest, amused Dada far more than the tablets, cylinders and cones covered with numbers and cabalistic signs, to which Medius tried to direct her attention. [10]
Mr. Flint's nature was not an introspective one, and if he had tried, he could not have accounted for his feelings. [9]
But to try was my duty, and I tried with all my might; almost, for Alixe's sake, with all my heart. [11]
The College Pharmacopoeia was loaded with the most absurd compound mixtures, one of the most complex of which (the same which the Reverend Mr. Harward, "Lecturer at the Royal Chappel in Boston," tried to simplify), was not dropped until the year 1801. [3]
The motive power was lacking, and no matter how hard I tried, I was only half-hearted, and he realized it instinctively--no amount of feigning could deceive him. [9]
The entire household was governed according to Pierre's supposed orders, that is, by his wishes which Natasha tried to guess. [2]
Next day he was drunk, and he went to Judge Thatcher's and bullyragged him, and tried to make him give up the money; but he couldn't, and then he swore he'd make the law force him. [5]
The Irish parliament was confessedly a failure, and it is scarcely within the possibilities that the experiment will be tried again. [4]
Gang after gang was captured, tried, and punished. [5]
Her motherly solicitude was aroused, and she tried to get him interested in the talk and win him to a happier frame of mind, but the cloud of sadness remained on his countenance. [5]
Truth is, Phips was anxious that Gering should have no chance of objecting to the scoundrel who had, years before, tried to kidnap his now affianced wife--who had escaped a deserved death on the gallows. [11]
You remember I was an old Whig, and whenever the Democratic party tried to get me to vote that the war had been righteously begun by the President, I would not do it. [7]
That her darling was alive she was sure; in that she could not be mistaken, often as Euphorion tried to persuade her that he must be dead. [10]
The tried Spanish warriors, with whom Don Juan had manned his vessel, hesitated. [10]
Sent back and warped up the other yawl, and then George (the first mentioned pilot,) and myself, took a double crew of fresh men and tried it again. [5]
Then he approached warily, and adopted conciliation; pursed up his lips and tried to whistle, but failed; still approached, saying, "Poor dog!--doggy, doggy, doggy!--poor doggy-dog! [5]

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