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It has no particular meaning; but our Government tries to give it one; it tries to make it stand for Republican Simplicity, modesty and unpretentiousness. [5]

More example sentences with the word tries in them

He deals unfairly with me, and tries to make the people of this State believe that I advocated dangerous doctrines in my Springfield speech. [7]
I trust he will spoil her wedding--if she ever tries to have one. [11]
Everybody knows --the widow, too, for all she tries to let on she don't. [5]
Like the astronomer who fixes his gaze and tries to imprint upon his memory some rare star in the firmament which a cloud is threatening to obscure, he now strove to obtain Ledscha's image. [10]
This is all very well, but when he tries to kick a fly off the top of his head with his hind foot, it is too much variety. [5]
He was rather trying the common arguments, as one tries tricks of fence merely to learn the way of parrying. [6]
The interviewer seldom tries to tell one how a thing was said; he merely puts in the naked remark and stops there. [5]
The man who tries to make enemies is like a wretch who mutilates his own body. [10]
A man instinctively tries to get rid of his thought in conversation or in print so soon as it is matured; but it is hard to get at it as it lies imbedded, a mere potentiality, the germ of a germ, in his intellect. [6]
When any one tries to claim them she should call me; I can always tell them from any other literary apprentice's at a glance. [5]
Any one who tries to catch one of the shore-crabs, so common on tropical coasts, will perceive how wary and alert they are. [1]
A distracted father tries to break through the ranks and rescue his son. [9]
When Mrs. Eddy tries to be artful--in literature--it is generally after the manner of the ostrich; and with the ostrich's luck. [5]
She tries me too far, and after all I am no more than human. [10]
Pray to Him to whom we owe all that is good, and who tries us with the evil. [10]
If he tries to realize it his efforts are fruitless. [2]
He even tries to prevail upon me to do these things, Ma, but I wasn't brought up in that way, you know. [5]
In respect to this large portion of Judge Douglas's speech in which he tries to show that in the controversy between himself and the Administration party he is in the right, I do not feel myself at all competent or inclined to answer him. [7]
The reporter realizes this himself, and tries to improve upon me, but he doesn't help matters any. [5]
Other information, however, the young man has not; and when this is exhausted, he becomes sleepy again, and tries a dozen ways to twist himself into a posture in which sleep will be possible. [4]
He uses all the means which experience has approved, tries every rational method which ingenuity can suggest. [6]
You can get the facts of a custom--like caste, and Suttee, and Thuggee, and so on--and with the facts a theory which tries to explain, but never quite does it to your satisfaction. [5]
It is possible that the roaring of the lion may be of some service to him by striking terror into his adversary; for when enraged he likewise erects his mane and thus instinctively tries to make himself appear as terrible as possible. [1]
But I think that if he tries to hunt elephants with it, he is going to be disappointed. [5]
You may have some notion of the old beau Horry can be when he tries, and he is over-fond of Miss Dolly--she puts him in mind of some canvas or other of Sir Peter's. [9]
He evidently had some curiosity about March, as the first of his kind whom he had encountered; some such curiosity as the country school trustee feels and tries to hide in the presence of the new schoolmaster. [8]
My father has so many cares, and he tries so hard to do right as he sees it. [9]
He tries to show that variety in the democratic institutions of the different States is necessary and indispensable. [7]
He knows the ripest bunches as well as anybody, and tries them all. [4]
He thinks his prescription cured a single case of a particular complaint; he tries it in twenty similar cases without effect, and sets down the first as probably nothing more than a coincidence. [3]
I'll take a posse and march to Shawanee Springs this day, and see any man a fair fight that tries to stop me. [9]
I know several other trades and the argot that goes with them; and whenever a person tries to talk the talk peculiar to any of them without having learned it at its source I can trap him always before he gets far on his road. [5]
For a month or six weeks about the equinox (autumnal or vernal) is a period of the year which, I have noticed, strangely tries me. [14]
It tries my old legs, and we can expect no quiet night. [10]
So, you must not disturb the man who robs you of house and land, and tries to murder you, lest he should be disturbed and not sleep o' nights. [11]
The `good' soldier never tries to distinguish right from wrong, he never thinks, he never reasons, he only obeys--" "But," Janet was tempted to say, "your syndicalism declares that none of us should think or reason. [9]
She comes to my office; she comes to this house; she visits Fabian; she tries to boss everybody. [11]
Simoetha has learnt many spells and charms from an Assyrian, and she tries them all. [10]
Is it the man that tries to save his homeland from the wolf and the worm? [11]
I know the language of that trade, that capricious trade, that fascinating buried-treasure trade, and can catch any writer who tries to use it without having learned it by the sweat of his brow and the labor of his hands. [5]
It is long-suffering; it tries not to see and acknowledge things until the culprit himself forces it to take action. [11]
Sometimes a bull is timid, finding himself in so strange a place, and he stands trembling, or tries to retreat. [5]
The true realist is such a man as Parent du Chatelet; exploring all that most tries the senses and the sentiments, and reporting all truthfully, but soberly, chastely, without needless circumstance, or picturesque embellishment, for a useful end, and not for a mere sensational effect. [6]
I think it is often apparent that he is pained by these discrepancies, but loyally tries his best not to show it. [5]
She was eighty-nine if she was a day, and tries to pass upon us now, for ten year younger. [12]
There is an idea of commercialism, of monopoly in that conception which is utterly repugnant to any one who tries to approach the subject with a fresh mind, and from an ideal point of view. [9]
He holds up his judicial scales before the world, that all may see; and it all tries to look so fair that a blind person would sometimes fail to see him slip the false weights in. [5]
There is a general impression that an American can do anything that he sets his hand to, but it is not true; it is true only that he tries everything. [4]
The old man furnishes all sorts of poisons, which she tries upon various animals--nay, recently even on criminals sentenced to death. [10]
He tries to express his thanks,--his voice falters,--he chokes,--and bursts into tears. [6]
Tries, and without doubt fails, for it is not conceivable that this loud ostentation of simplicity deceives any one. [5]
He tries to do the big things in the world because there is the big thing to do--for sure. [11]
By the parvenu--his definition may not be scientific--he seems to mean a person who is vulgar, but has money, and tries to get into society on the strength of his money alone. [4]
Any book, however deep, can be written in terms that everybody can comprehend, if a man only tries hard enough. [9]
I love your brother dearly; for your mother's sake I can forgive him much; but if he tries to ensnare Agatha--" "Have no fear," said Melissa, interrupting his wrathful speech. [10]
I know him, and I know that he loves a really thorough master, and tries to encourage him with princely liberality. [10]
I think Congress always tries to do as near right as it can, according to its lights. [5]
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his powers touches the walls of his being occasionally, and learns about how far to attempt to spring. [4]
I always hate a man that tries to sell me echoes. [5]
She is also "The Mother," by the election of 1895, and did not want the title, and thinks it is not applicable to her, end will excommunicate any one that tries to take it away from her. [5]

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