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Sentences starting with trying

Trying to play yourself for a stranger and an innocent!--why, I knew you before you had spoken seven words; and I made up my mind to find out what was your little game. [5]
Trying to impose your vile second-hand carcasses on us!--thunder and lightning, I've a notion to--to--if you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!--or by George we'll brain you! [5]
Trying it a third morning, I was obliged to throw it over the fence in order to save from destruction the green things that ought to grow in the garden. [4]
Trying to save the pieces, Asher. [9]
Trying to guess out that remark. [5]
Trying to make our fortune in Virginia, Beriah Sellers nearly ruined us and we had to settle in Kentucky and start over again. [5]
Trying to make our fortune in Kentucky he crippled us again and we had to move here. [5]
Trying to make our fortune here, he brought us clear down to the ground, nearly. [5]
Trying to stimulate his emotions he looked around. [2]
Trying to rise he felt blood trickling down his neck, and he turned sick and blind. [11]

Sentences ending with trying

Well, I thank you for trying. [8]
Oh, it is worth trying! [9]
However, Mr. Brown was ambitious, and he kept on trying. [5]
Was it very trying? [11]
But it's worth trying. [5]
The interview was too trying. [4]
When he went to his office the next morning he sent for the manuscript, looked it over critically, and then announced to his partners that he thought the thing was worth trying. [4]
It unfits you to argue about business, and you're wrong to be always trying. [5]
I would collect that bill, or fall, as fell my predecessors, trying. [5]
The situation was singular and trying. [11]

Short sentences using trying

It was worth trying, however. [11]
He was trying to smile. [9]
His predicament became more trying. [9]
Talk of things less trying. [5]
Is anybody trying it softly? [6]
But clever men are trying. [11]
You know I am trying. [9]
I'm trying to adjust myself. [4]
Trying for me!... [2]

Sentences containing trying two or more times

You see his white mustache and his head trying to get white (he is always trying to look like me--I don't blame him for that). [5]
Anybody whose ancestors were in this country when we were trying to free ourselves from oppression, must sympathize with those who now are trying to do the same thing in Russia. [5]
It was so trying to give one's watch a good long undisturbed spell and then take it out and find that it had been fooling away the time and not trying to get ahead any! [5]
We are always trying to escape winter when we are not trying to escape summer. [4]
She is a most trying witness--the most trying witness that ever kissed the Book, I am sure. [5]
Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out, and I don't know but more so. [5]

More example sentences with the word trying in them

You don't mean you're trying to arrest me again, after letting me go? [11]
But I thought you were all only trying to make it easier for me, and I heard Warbeck say to Rockwell, when they thought I was asleep, 'It's ten to one against him. [11]
I thought maybe you was trying to hocus me again. [5]
But of course you know her already," he said, evidently trying to entertain a visitor with whom he now found nothing in common. [2]
Did you see--do you know anything that makes you think he had been trying to do that? [8]
He believes that you have got, in some way, a wrong idea of what he is trying to do. [9]
And I tell you as I hope for happiness here and hereafter, that if Worthington succeeds in what he is trying to do, if the railroads win in this fight, there will be no mercy for the people of that state. [9]
Tell me now, you are not in earnest, are you, but only trying a little sentiment on me? [6]
We expend more yearly for apprehending and trying those caught, for the machinery of criminal justice, and for the recurring farce of imprisoning on short sentences and discharging those felons to go on with their work of swindling and robbing. [4]
I sat every year for five years, trying to satisfy that insatiable organization. [5]
There, I was wrong to be indignant in your presence,--you who seem to have spent your life in trying to get others out of difficulties. [9]
And then Tom would take another innings, and then the old man again--and so on, and so on, for an hour and more, each trying to beat out the other. [5]
Of course it would not do to copy a model, raw, like' that, but he fell to studying his traits, trying to see the common humanity exhibited in him. [4]
Lecturing was hard work, but he was under the "base necessity," as he called it, of constant labor, writing in summer, speaking everywhere east and west in the trying and dangerous winter season. [6]
She drew her wool down through the canvas and, scarcely able to refrain from laughing, stooped as if trying to make out the pattern. [2]
I held the woman I hated in my grasp, and thanked the immortals for the boon; but you two--it is not difficult to guess the secret you are still trying to keep from me--you aided her to escape. [10]
And so, people without a hall-mark of their own are always trying to get the loan of somebody else's. [5]
The first army, with which was the Emperor, occupied the fortified camp at Drissa; the second army was retreating, trying to effect a junction with the first one from which it was said to be cut off by large French forces. [2]
Patiently and earnestly, with their stiff old fingers, they were trying to forge the required note. [5]
If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy--if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places. [5]
I was trying with the help of Pretty Pierre to get out of the country"--and he waved his hand towards the half-breed. [11]
Mammy Easter is with him, trying to make out what he is saying. [9]
Natasha watched him with an intent gaze that confused him, as if she were trying to find in his face the answer to some question. [2]
Then, as if with a great effort, and after the manner of one who has learned a part, he went on: "As the French ran away mad, paw of one on tail of other, they found him trying to drag himself along. [11]
But if you wish war, persist in trying to grind the spirit from a people who have in them the pride of your own ancestors. [9]
It was a wise move, for he found Regnault de Chartres and some more of the King's pet rascals there trying their best to disperse the army, and crippling all the efforts of Joan's generals to head it for Orleans. [5]
In a word, why don't you go off somewhere and die, and not be always trying to seduce people into becoming as "ornery" and unlovable as you are yourselves, by your villainous "moral statistics"? [5]
And Father Damon, who was trying to save souls, was he accomplishing anything more than she? [4]
The Chicago company who was trying to build the machines made little progress. [5]
It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be. [11]
She ordered everybody who came near her to explain what had happened, thus detaining her granddaughter Helena, who was trying to save the most valuable articles in the dwelling. [10]
Even as he whistled Meyerbeer, riding towards Tralee, his eyes had a look of one who was trying to see into things; and his lips, when the whistling ceased, had a cheerful pucker which seemed to show that he had seen what he wanted. [11]
She had fainted while trying to follow. [10]
You spoke, a while back, of trying to start it up again as a preparation to disposing of it, but we are not in shape to venture that, I think. [5]
The trying months which she had described in her letters to Barine had completely blanched her grey hair, her cheeks were sunken, and a deep line between her mouth and nose gave her pleasant face a sorrowful expression. [10]
He follows forms which have but little resemblance to conversation, but they make the reader understand what the writer is trying to convey. [5]
In the place where three or four currents meet there was the usual jam of carriages, furniture wagons, carts, cars, and hurried, timid, half-bewildered passengers trying to make their way through it. [4]
Forty-seven years later, when I was in the islands, Kainehameha V. was trying to repair Liholiho's blunder, and not succeeding. [5]
We never know when fortune is trying to favor us. [5]
Why, my trying what you go to do is like--is like--" Cluny's similes failed to come. [11]
And this is what the Nicene Creed is trying to express when it says, 'Begotten of his Father before all worlds. [9]
In fact, those were very trying days for him-days when he needed all the private sympathy he could get, and to be shielded, in his great fight with the conspiracy, from petty private annoyances. [4]
Apparently, Rhodes's agents were seconding their efforts--in fact wearing out the telegraph wires trying to hold him back. [5]
Too many sensations were being born in her all at once; but she did recognise that he was not trying to subtract anything from the pomp of the Lavilettes. [11]
Inconceivable though it were (a middle-of-the-night reflection), if he insisted on trying to keep such a woman bottled up in Rivington she might some day pack up and leave him. [9]
One might as well set the gentlemen detained in the public prisons to trying each other. [5]
One of our well meaning reptiles--I mean relic-hunters--had crawled up there and was trying to break a "specimen" from the face of this the most majestic creation the hand of man has wrought. [5]
When he got well he was a little discouraged, but he resolved to keep on trying anyhow. [5]
The clue-iron which we are trying to make serve for the broken block works, however, very indifferently, and will, I am afraid, soon cut the rope. [5]
Isn't that what we are trying to do? [9]
We are light, we are always trying to get away from ourselves, and sometimes I wonder whether there are any selves to get away from. [9]
Venters went his way with busy, gloomy mind, revolving events of the day, trying to reckon those brooding in the night. [13]
Having forced his way out of the crowd of fugitives, Prince Andrew, trying to keep near Kutuzov, saw on the slope of the hill amid the smoke a Russian battery that was still firing and Frenchmen running toward it. [2]
He turned this way and that, and finally gave it up and signified that he was going to spend the remainder of the morning trying to find the city gate again. [5]
I see I was weakening; so I just give up trying, and up and says: "He's white. [5]
I fear he was trying to see what I should say--I fear so. [11]
And besides, he was trying to save Hester from Jennings. [9]
While the doctor was trying to compel him to obey and enter the litter which stood waiting for him, he beat him back with his strong young fists. [10]
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]
If the situation was trying for him, it was painful for her. [11]
After a time--it was toward midnight now--Mr. Hawkins roused out of a doze, looked about him and was evidently trying to speak. [5]
All she thought was to get away--far away from these men who were trying to imperil her immortal soul. [10]
The third company was the last, and Kutuzov pondered, apparently trying to recollect something. [2]
In fact, he was not thinking much about being good or being bad, but of trying his powers in a world which seemed to offer to him infinite opportunities. [4]
You see, they was firing cannon over the water, trying to make my carcass come to the top. [5]
At mid-afternoon I was at my desk, trying to work, and this sprite had been making it impossible for half an hour. [5]
I said: "You wanted to burn me alive when I had not done you any harm, and latterly you have been trying to injure my professional reputation. [5]
She did not want to think, to decide, and yet she knew--something was trying to tell her that the moment for decision had come. [9]
And yet I want to face the situation--I'm trying to get you to face it, to realize how terrible it is. [9]
All through his wanderings during a whole year he kept his injury in mind, and gave all his leisure moments to trying to invent a compensating satisfaction for it. [5]
Langeron, trying as virulently as possible to sting Weyrother's vanity as author of the military plan, argued that Bonaparte might easily attack instead of being attacked, and so render the whole of this plan perfectly worthless. [2]
But I like very well to hear the bells' jingling and to see the young people trying to have a good time as hard as they do at a picnic. [6]
It was all very mysterious to me, and I lay awake many a night with curiosity, trying to solve a puzzle that was none of my business. [9]
While Hornecht was vainly trying to arrest the horseman's attention, his companion, Bai, the second prophet of Amon, whispered: "Let him go! [10]
But it's quite useless trying to make people in a place like St. Barnaby understand how it is in town. [8]
Then she sometimes used very unkind words; but no one could cherish anger against her long, for she had an indescribably lovely manner of trying to atone for the offences which her hasty young blood made her commit. [10]
But it's no use trying, I can't. [9]
There ain't any use trying to put up a bluff with you. [9]
What was the use of trying to enforce social intercourse under such conditions? [6]
There is no use in trying to graft the tropical palm upon the Northern pine. [6]
There is no use in my trying to make myself any clearer, and you'll have to keep your appointment. [9]
The codling told us that a Rebel spy had been caught trying its fords a little while ago, and was now at Camp Curtin with a heavy ball chained to his leg,--a popular story, but a lie, Dr. Wilson said. [6]
The Paladin made us all jealous the first night, for when he got fairly started on those battles of his he had everything to himself, and there was no use in anybody else's trying to get any attention. [5]
That scoundrelly young upstart--" "If you want my opinion," I replied, trying to speak slowly, "it is that Mr. Farrar ought to get ten thousand dollars. [9]
It presently dawned upon General Armour that it might also be trying to their charge. [11]
Barrow early gave up the idea of trying to convince Tracy that he hadn't any father, because this had such a bad effect on the patient, and worked up his temper to such an alarming degree. [5]
I could not understand this extraordinary procedure; so I presently gave up trying to, and dozed off to sleep. [5]
Those enemies must understand that they cannot experiment for ten years trying to destroy the government, and if they fail, still come back into the Union unhurt. [7]
Aunt Mary, helpful under the most trying circumstances, was putting her articles in a bag, the initials on which she did not recognize--H. L. S.--Honora Leffingwell Spence; while old Catherine, tearful and inefficient, knelt before her, fumbling at her shoes. [9]
I left the two together, and moved about the deck, trying to think closely about Roscoe's case, and to drive Clovelly's invasion from my mind. [11]
True, we saw two or three vagabonds mending their nets, but never trying to catch any thing with them. [5]
It was like two frigates manoeuvring,--each trying to get to windward of the other. [6]
I turned and twisted my question around and about, trying to strike that man's average, but failed. [5]
In all those twelve weeks of that most trying of all sessions he had not once gone into the street, and he had been less than ever common in the eyes of men. [9]
I, in my turn, explain to the waiter that it is better than the coffee; but we come to no understanding, and I give up, before I begin, trying to understand the Austrian currency. [4]
I have been trying, ever since I have been here, to ascertain the price of oranges; not for purposes of exportation, nor yet for the personal importation that I daily practice, but in order to give an American basis of fact to these idle chapters. [4]
She was also trying to verify something in her memory. [11]
There's no use trying to trail me. [9]
But Lali was trying to think it out, not only to feel, and she did not count that subterranean force which must play its part in this new situation in her drama of life. [11]
No one is trying to tarnish this person; no one has thought of it. [5]

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