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  • What is the nature of this endeavor?†   (source)
  • But it was there, and studies now show that working-class boys like me do much worse in school because they view schoolwork as a feminine endeavor.†   (source)
  • Twenty survivors, all well qualified for our planned endeavor.†   (source)
  • GSS's new endeavor was a massive success from day one.†   (source)
  • The winning team in Washington gets to take home that huge golden trophy, they receive a guest appearance on Good Morning America, and their school will receive a check for two thousand dollars to be used for academic endeavors!†   (source)
  • You must endeavor to elevate yourselves, no matter your previous station.†   (source)
  • The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.†   (source)
  • Ah, gods, plural, as in, great beings that control the forces of nature and human endeavors: the immortal gods of Olympus.†   (source)
  • However, if brewed correctly, as this has been, you will find that all your endeavors tend to succeed … at least until the effects wear off.†   (source)
  • Jack Webb, before he was the good cop in Dragnet, was a bad guy in Appointment with Danger; he was, among his other endeavors, attempting to murder a nun.†   (source)
  • Building an oil rig to yield a single barrel of oil was a losing endeavor.†   (source)
  • They will assemble everything under one unassailable roof, a temple to the human endeavor.†   (source)
  • The old Devon endeavor?†   (source)
  • The first Westerners to set eyes on the sport of surfing were the crew of the Endeavor, the ship that Captain Cook commanded.†   (source)
  • The Lady of Clubs encouraged any endeavor that might weaken Genevieve's grip on the throne.†   (source)
  • I plan to dedicate all of it to this endeavor.†   (source)
  • She had the kind of eyes that predisposed you to supporting her every endeavor.†   (source)
  • That lesson has served Asians well in many endeavors but rarely so perfectly as in the case of mathematics.†   (source)
  • I debate whether I should explain to him that my name isn't going to help him in his stalking endeavors.†   (source)
  • Sunny said, wondering what in the world "endeavor" meant.†   (source)
  • This was a plunge encompassing sorrow and revulsion far beyond the personal: a sick, drenching nausea at all humanity and human endeavor from the dawn of time.†   (source)
  • Certainly a worthy endeavor and one you are fit to carry out, yet it strikes me that help would not be unwelcome.†   (source)
  • Kneeling before our little statue of the Virgin with an eroded face I endeavored to pray for my future husband.†   (source)
  • And do you Inow why the name is p-p-propitious for our endeavor?†   (source)
  • When our writers speak of harvests, we know it can refer not only to agricultural but also to personal harvests, the results of our endeavors, whether over the course of a growing season or a life.†   (source)
  • It was a place where everyone endeavored, constantly and passionately, to improve themselves, each other, share their knowledge, disseminate it to the world.†   (source)
  • I brought some energy to it, of course, but it was the energy that accompanies almost any abstract endeavor; I felt no personal danger; I felt no sense of an impending crisis in my life.†   (source)
  • Police, city officials, even businesses had a stake in this endeavor.†   (source)
  • If I were you, I would endeavor to show him a good faith effort that you are mature enough and responsible enough for this trip.†   (source)
  • The other Emigres appeared to find his challenges and taunts a proper context for their endeavor.†   (source)
  • Very quickly she realized the futility of this endeavor.†   (source)
  • Ma trained under renowned cellist Leonard Rose, a full-time endeavor that left even less time for socializing than Mr. Ayers had.†   (source)
  • So I feel it's only fair that you know exactly who has been assisting me in my endeavors.†   (source)
  • He considered her not only his most enthusiastic collaborator, but the very soul of his endeavors.†   (source)
  • I wasthat boy, who would have — as soon as I discovered that you were what I was looking for — gotten down on one knee and endeavored to secure your hand.†   (source)
  • Art is high-quality endeavor.†   (source)
  • On the morning Carl Heine died—September 16—the sheriff was in the midst of an inventory at his office and had engaged the services of the new court stenographer, Mrs. Eleanor Dokes (who now sat primly below the judge's bench recording everything with silent implacability), as an aide in this annual county-mandated endeavor.†   (source)
  • It was to shape the course of his entire philosophic endeavor.†   (source)
  • In his mind, he was fighting all poverty all the time, an endeavor full of difficulties and inevitable failures.†   (source)
  • He was also supportive to the Prince in all endeavors of hunting and battle, and you didn't give a follower like that a quick "Get away, boy, you bother me."†   (source)
  • Mrs. Hickock, a plump woman with a soft, round face un-marred by a lifetime of dawn-to-dark endeavor, reproached him.†   (source)
  • My job, only temporary at first, grew into more than a full-time endeavor.†   (source)
  • He tried to reconstruct the way in which this monstrous endeavor must have begun.†   (source)
  • I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion.†   (source)
  • A simplistic statement for a complex endeavor.†   (source)
  • Most of those were published by scientific journals, and their titles seemed to suggest that bottles were being used in various endeavors to learn about ocean currents.†   (source)
  • Please remember, if at any time you do not complete the activities outlined in my will, or if Mr. Hamilton is not pleased with your attitude, this endeavor will simply end, and you will forego the ultimate gift.†   (source)
  • Cheating may or may not be human nature, but it is certainly a prominent feature in just about every human endeavor.†   (source)
  • Nobody endeavored to stay the flames now.†   (source)
  • "Be blessed in your endeavors," I thanked him automatically, and popped the berries into my mouth before lying back down.†   (source)
  • Over the years he learned to do the same in all of his endeavors, to watch and judge the actions of his fellow citizens and officers with cool detachment, behind a blank face that concealed his conclusions.†   (source)
  • Oh, diary, my heart feels much misgiving about this endeavor.†   (source)
  • Exact numbers are impossible to pin down in such a secretive endeavor, but one of the rare reports to appear in the heavily censored Saudi press hints at the massive change shrewdly invested petroleum profits are having on Pakistan's most impoverished students.†   (source)
  • Most of the remaining tasks involved entering the submarine structure, a hazardous endeavor.†   (source)
  • We shall stay here together, and you must all endeavor to lighten my desolation when my husband is away.†   (source)
  • Kennerly endeavored to look serious.†   (source)
  • I chose my second most appalling outfit for today's endeavors—more black on black, because that's really all I have anyway.†   (source)
  • We have a good lead on him—we should endeavor to make the most of it.†   (source)
  • His experience in India had left him with a taste for spiritual endeavors.†   (source)
  • He endeavored to trap and nourish the impression in order to predict, and perhaps even control, what incident would occur next, but the afatus melted away unproductively, as he had known beforehand it would. deja vu.†   (source)
  • Jehovah's Witnesses, using the threat of excommunication, have long stood in opposition to a much longer list of worldly endeavors than the Pentecostals.†   (source)
  • So the whole endeavor just seemed inadvisable.†   (source)
  • Sabina had renewed his faith in the grandeur of human endeavor.†   (source)
  • As far as I was concerned, this entire endeavor would be quick and painless.†   (source)
  • His latest failed endeavor.†   (source)
  • I was just about to repeat the endeavor with a yellow jawbreaker-the yield of paint was four times as much as a Skittle—when Shay's priest walked up to my cell door in his flak jacket.†   (source)
  • But I endeavor to keep my fears to myself as well as I can.†   (source)
  • But I believe that would be as fruitless an endeavor as convincing you to let Sharon rest in peace.†   (source)
  • Gates had made an enormous error because by acceding to the demand he had revealed the gravity of his endeavors.†   (source)
  • On the rare occasions he was at the Hall, I tried to find excuses for declining work there, and when I could not afford to do so, endeavored to stay out of his line of sight and made sure I could never be entrapped into beingalone with him.†   (source)
  • But whatever he made of it, Pilgrim seemed to draw on this strange and relentless new vigor and soon he was as much a party to the endeavor as Tom.†   (source)
  • Every endeavor is at some point troubled by pessimists.†   (source)
  • He sadly admitted that I was right, but since the alternative to our doing the cleaning was having it become a missionary endeavor, I had to agree that we were certainly the lesser of two evils.†   (source)
  • Art is a very human endeavor, and itcontains within its process and the objects it produces a road to liberation.†   (source)
  • It was unconscionable to involve a child—even one so obviously gifted—in such risky endeavors.†   (source)
  • I am endeavoring to suggest that we keep the discussion on a friendly plane.†   (source)
  • GEORGE (At NICK, not to him): You take the trouble to construct a civilization …. to …. to build a society, based on the principles of …. of principle …. you endeavor to make communicable sense out of natural order, morality out of the unnatural disorder of man's mind …. you make government and art, and realize that they are, must be, both the same …. you bring things to the saddest of all points …. to the point where there is something to lose …. then all at once, through all the…†   (source)
  • In one of the most provocative statements in Paradigms Lost, Simon presented an unapologetic defense of elitism: Language, I think, belongs to two groups only: gifted individuals everywhere, who use it imaginatively; and the fellowship of men and women, wherever they are, who, without being particularly inventive, nevertheless endeavor to speak and write correctly.†   (source)
  • One realizes, of course, what it will mean when a heart does arrive, that another young boy or girl has come to an awful end, and it makes me think again how the conservational laws apply to human beings and their endeavors as well as to energy and matter, and that for us, those laws are often ironical and cruel.†   (source)
  • He would endeavor to close his eyes or stare out the window, and she would disrobe within a foot of him, knowing that the very sound of her clothing would be more powerful than a hundred voluptuous nudes.†   (source)
  • It tells me that while I am absent from home, fighting the battels of our country, trying to restore law and order, to our once peaceful & prosperous nation, and endeavoring to secure for each and every American citizen of every race, the rights garenteed to us in the Declaration of Independence ….†   (source)
  • In January, 1850, Mr. Mason of Virginia said the existing law was inadequate: "You may as well go down into the sea and endeavor to recover from his native element a fish which had escaped from you as expect to recover a fugitive.†   (source)
  • We most earnestly recommend to you calmness and unanimity in this great and weighty affair, that the union may be brought to a happy conclusion, being the only effectual way to secure our present and future happiness, and disappoint the designs of our and your enemies, who will …. use their utmost endeavors to prevent or delay this union.†   (source)
  • His strategy that his army "must endeavor to harass them if we cannot destroy them" depends upon motivated troops and favorable terrain.†   (source)
  • And grown-uply endeavoring not to giggle—but that was impossible!†   (source)
  • Yunkai wishes you only well in that endeavor.†   (source)
  • I wonder, sir, if I might enlist your aid in this, ah, endeavor.†   (source)
  • With Eugene's help, the calf rose on tottering stick legs, while Louisa got Putty ready for the next step, which the calf took to as the most natural endeavor of all: suckling.†   (source)
  • Lastly, there was the small matter of what to call Hannah's endeavor.†   (source)
  • Worse, despite many conferences, negotiations, meetings, summits and various other diplomatic endeavors, Earth had neither a centralized space management command nor even a finalized treaty on space extraction, nor exploration nor colonization.†   (source)
  • It was borne in upon me that I should have followed the wolf and endeavored to gain his confidence, or at least to convince him that I harbored no ill will toward his kind.†   (source)
  • And that pierced her, even as she endeavored to doubt she was hearing that at all — Grover's voice taking on that special keenness of beauty that is half a matter of the exquisitely rippling air, and half a matter of pain.†   (source)
  • Nothing is more grievous to us than the idea of desecration of holy objects and we shall endeavor to take every means at our command to ensure the return of your precious candelabra.†   (source)
  • KELLER acquires the suitcase, and ANNIE gets her hands on it too, though still endeavoring to live up to the general air of propertied manners.†   (source)
  • But in his own field of endeavor, which he was now practicing, the slow, imperial smelling over and anointing of an area, he has no peer.†   (source)
  • Oh, I thought, we have no accomplished essayists in the class, so let us continue into other fields of endeavor.†   (source)
  • And so was Yurii Andreievich's honest endeavor not to love her, as wholehearted as his striving throughout his life until now to love everyone, not only his family and his friends, but everyone else as well.†   (source)
  • He endeavored to make a little more of his sobbing than came out, but the moment had departed.†   (source)
  • The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it -- and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.†   (source)
  • It was true her screams were sometimes justified, out on a ship at sea, and always opportune-but there were also screams that seemed offered through the day for their own sake, endeavors of pure anguish or joy that youth and strength seemed able to put out faster than the steady, pounding quiet of the voyage could ever overtake and heal.†   (source)
  • Oh, alas (He thumps the chair in distress) as I think of it I see so clearly that I can not come with Your Grace that my endeavor is not to think of it at all.†   (source)
  • It was in vain that Fortunato, uplifting his dull torch, endeavored to pry into the depths of the recess.   (source)
    endeavored = tried or attempted
  • He was endeavoring to catch my eye in a familiar way.†   (source)
  • "They have a good reason for their endeavors," Matthew says.†   (source)
  • I spend most of my time either researching or writing, and those are solitary endeavors.†   (source)
  • I thanked him for his good wishes, and wished him luck in his endeavors.†   (source)
  • She struggles with HELEN, while KELLER endeavors to control his voice.†   (source)
  • Mohammed didn't tell his father about such endeavors, and he certainly didn't tell him when, a few years later, he decided that he was destined to be the world's greatest long-distance swimmer.†   (source)
  • It is fair-minded and generally prefers to maintain some balance between the likelihood of success and failure in all our endeavors.†   (source)
  • "But if I keep running in and out of the Ministry," said Harry, still endeavoring to keep his voice friendly, "won't that seem as though I approve of what the Ministry's up to?"†   (source)
  • Although she certainly does not excel at endeavors such as teaching the French language, Madame O'Malley makes a mean stuffing, and she invites all the students who stay on campus to Thanksgiving dinner.†   (source)
  • Ironic, I suppose, that just when his organization's endeavors had ceased to be global in theory and had become global in fact, a child had entered his life.†   (source)
  • After the rescue team dispersed, I sat in the snow for a long while by myself, staring at my boots, endeavoring to get a grip on what had happened over the preceding seventy-two hours.†   (source)
  • "No matter what you decide, Alice," he was saying, "I want you to know that in the coming years I will be only too glad to assist you in your charitable endeavors.†   (source)
  • An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality, in mechanical work as in other endeavors.†   (source)
  • But they endeavored to do so.†   (source)
  • The officers also endeavored to speak with the hotel's manager, only to find that he had not yet reported to work—a fact that was duly noted in his file!†   (source)
  • When all was said and done, the endeavors that most modern men saw as urgent (such as appointments with bankers and the catching of trains), probably could have waited, while those they deemed frivolous (such as cups of tea and friendly chats) had deserved their immediate attention.†   (source)
  • That is, he should walk among the willows, read a timeless text, converse with a friend beneath the pergola, or reflect before the fire—engaging in those endeavors that have no appointed hour, and that dictate their own beginnings and ends.†   (source)
  • Christmas away from home was most trying, and though John endeavored to explain to me that I had a new home now, it only made matters worse.†   (source)
  • He personally blessed my endeavors.†   (source)
  • With a smile, Franklin replied, "My Lord, we will do our utmost endeavors to save your Lordship that mortification."†   (source)
  • Both endeavors suffered.†   (source)
  • Vaguely, I heard him saying something about understanding and obligation, commitment and future endeavors, all the buzzwords and concepts I did understand, and knew so well.†   (source)
  • She released Thorn and pushed herself away from him, raising her wings and laboriously flapping as she endeavored to keep them aloft.†   (source)
  • I have just signed a treaty with our conqueror, witnessed the creation of a demonic embassy on our lands, and endeavored to embark on a new Age of Discovery.†   (source)
  • The whole sphere of human endeavors, with one exception, left him blankly indifferent; he had no touch of that which people called culture.†   (source)
  • Fully sensible of our danger, he was constantly endeavoring to bear up under it with manly courage and patience, very attentive to me, and his thoughts always running in a serious strain.†   (source)
  • He had no patience with Marxism, Julianism, socialism, and the other economic faiths that endeavored not merely to explain everything but to reorder and replace that which had come into being in spite of a thousand philosophies, ten thousand theories, and uncountable millennia of nature, necessity, and chance.†   (source)
  • The young man, as it happened, was a senior at American University, and although he obviously adored his grandfather, he was just as obviously apprehensive about being any part of the old man's endeavors.†   (source)
  • There was a great deal to share, and Mina endeavored to relay it all in eager, breathless, disjointed accounts that might have lasted all night if the moomenhovens did not see her off once Old Tom struck ten o'clock.†   (source)
  • Cedric pushes forward gamely, keeping his voice loud and even: "When I was asked to deliver the salutatory address I was afraid because it seemed an awesome responsibility … many of us who are going on to college, to work, or to the military, understand the feelings of fear and responsibility in our new endeavors … but if we, the class of 1995, are to face a new day, we must become self-sufficient, responsible, and determined in rising to the challenges of the twenty-first century."†   (source)
  • Frowning with concentration, Eragon endeavored to eke the needed force from the environment and hold it within himself until he was ready to release the magic…… "Eragon!†   (source)
  • I QUERIED Ootek about the apparently inexplicable behavior of the band of wolves I had seen at the Eskimo camp, and in his patient and kindly fashion he once more endeavored to put me straight.†   (source)
  • As the staff was dismissed and the search began, my dear John showing a color of pale I had never witnessed, I endeavored to locate Sukeena and to request she in turn find Linda and bring her to me in my chambers.†   (source)
  • Russ makes his way through the infield and dance-steps into an awkward jog that makes him feel ancient and extraneous and he thinks of the ballplayers of his youth, the men with redneck monickers whose endeavors he followed in the papers every day, Eppa Rixey and Hod Eller and old Ivy Wingo, and there is a silly grin pasted across his face because he is a forty-one-year-old man with a high fever and he is running across a ball field to conduct a dialogue with a pack of athletes in…†   (source)
  • I have endeavored to bring them down to the level of all other diseases of the human body, and to show that the mind and body are moved by the same causes and subject to the same laws.†   (source)
  • He said that the leaders of MK and the ANC "endeavored to keep these two organizations entirely separate.†   (source)
  • "[Adams] thought Hamilton and a party were endeavoring to get an army on foot to give Hamilton the command of it, and thus to proclaim a regal government and place Hamilton as the head of it, and prepare the way for a province of Great Britain," wrote Gerry.†   (source)
  • Chief and subject, warrior and medicine man, all took part and endeavored to influence its decisions.†   (source)
  • Adams has given extreme offense to the court here," it began…. having nothing else wherewith to employ himself, he seems to have endeavored to supply what he may suppose my negotiations defective in.†   (source)
  • While our best endeavors for the preservation of harmony with all nations will continue to be used, the experience of the world and our own experience admonish us of the insecurity of trusting too confidently to their success.†   (source)
  • While we are endeavoring to adjust all our differences with France by amicable negotiation, with the progress of the war in Europe, the depredations on our commerce, the personal injuries to our citizens, and the general complexion of our affairs, render it my duty to recommend your consideration of effectual measures of defense.†   (source)
  • We went with some accuracy through the geometry in the Preceptor, the eight books of Simpson's Euclid in Latin…… We went through plane geometry …. algebra, and the decimal fractions, arithmetical and geometrical proportions…… I then attempted a sublime flight and endeavored to give him some idea of the differential method of calculations ….†   (source)
  • …our welfare and interest as much as I do or any man can do, seems to think a little apparent stoutness and greater air of independence and boldness in our demands will produce us more ample assistance…… Mr. Vergennes, who appears much offended, told me yesterday that he would enter into no further discussions with Mr. Adams, nor answer any more of his letters…… It is my intention, while I stay here, to procure what advantages I can for our country by endeavoring to please this court.†   (source)
  • He had been ill a long time—in the mind, as we now realized, reliving instances of his fantastic intransigence in thenew light of his affliction and endeavoring to feel a sorrow for him which never, quite, came true.†   (source)
  • I had realized this since that moment when—describing some puritanical Cracovian town fathers who had endeavored to put a fig leaf on a reproduction of Michelangelo's David—she had said they had wanted "to cover up his schlong."†   (source)
  • I cannot pass it…… Upon the youth of my state whom it has been my privilege to assist in education I have always endeavored to impress the belief that truth was better than falsehood, honesty better than policy, courage better than cowardice.†   (source)
  • How I now cherish the image of myself in this earlier time, hunched over the schoolmarm's desk in that radiant pink room, whispering melodiously (as I still do) the invented phrases and sentences, testing them on my lips like some obsessed verse-monger, and all the while remaining supremely content in the knowledge that the fruit of this happy labor, whatever its deficiencies, would be the most awesome and important of man's imaginative endeavors—The Novel.†   (source)
  • HELEN lifts her hand out dripping, wipes it daintily on BELLE'S hide, and taking the tumbler from ANNIE, endeavors to thrust BELLE'S paw into it.†   (source)
  • That was good, the decrepit Devon endeavor.†   (source)
  • "Depends on whether or not you have an H of G for the endeavor," he said, without looking up.†   (source)
  • I think it best if, from now on, you endeavor to speak only in the ancient language.†   (source)
  • So don't ever shy away from that endeavor.†   (source)
  • "We endeavor to provide. sir," the colonel said.†   (source)
  • I will inquire of them, but I suspect it will be a futile endeavor.†   (source)
  • "Well," Clyde said, flattered, "I mean, I endeavor to.†   (source)
  • I must schedule my day to make room for this endeavor.†   (source)
  • We cannot expect their support for any endeavor of the intellect, for any goal of the spirit.†   (source)
  • I will endeavor to do a better job than my predecessor.†   (source)
  • Our friends, I hear tell, are referring to my endeavor as "the tower folly."†   (source)
  • They were men who loved noble endeavor, who shared a disdain for indolence, and hated wasting time.†   (source)
  • I endeavor to live in the most frugal manner possible, but I am many times distressed.†   (source)
  • We must endeavor to forget our former love for them.†   (source)
  • Getting to the top, proclaimed Gunther O. Dyrenfurth, an influential alpinist and chronicler of early Himalayan mountaineering, was "a matter of universal human endeavor, a cause from which there is no withdrawal, whatever losses it may demand."†   (source)
  • To exert one's power or facilities on; to make an effort to perform; to try; to attempt; to endeavor to do; to make experiment of.†   (source)
  • When she'd started singing at The Orange Grove, she'd wanted the honest approval of her hometown pastor—she'd needed to be assured that she was engaged in a decent and honorable endeavor; she'd asked him to come see her and hear her sing.†   (source)
  • I rode the bus out there every morning to teach grammar and literature to the oddly unpoetic children of this endeavor.†   (source)
  • There were also indications that both Halliday and Morrow had invested most of their own personal fortunes in the company's new endeavor.†   (source)
  • The first sentence was "This tome will endeavor to scrutinize, in quasi-inclusive breadth, the epistemology of ophthalmologically contrived appraisals of ocular systems and the subsequent and requisite exertions imperative for expugnation of injurious states," and as Violet read it out loud to her sister, both children felt the dread that comes when you begin a very boring and difficult book.†   (source)
  • The Colonel relied so heavily on perfect synchronicity that if one of us messed up even slightly, the endeavor would collapse entirely.†   (source)
  • She ran, leaving Edith and Lorina to make their own way home, leaving the Reverend Dodgson-who considered children to be spirits fresh from God's hands, their smiles divine, and who thought there could be no greater endeavor than devoting all of his powers to a task for which the only reward was a child's whispered thanks and the airy touch of her pure lips-shaken, unsure of what had just happened.†   (source)
  • You know, a few years ago, I had the idea that I would endeavor, in my lifetime, to know every person on Earth.†   (source)
  • The decrepit Devon endeavor?†   (source)
  • Woodall had recruited three of South Africa's strongest climbers Andy de Klerk, Andy Hackland, and to form the nucleus of his team: Although Neby's expedition was bi Bedasa's olo" endeavor he had employed eighteen Sherpas to carry his loads, fix ropes for him, establish his camps, and guide him up the mountain.†   (source)
  • —n. An effort made for the performance of anything; a trial, attempt, or endeavor; a test or experiment; a literary composition intended to prove some particular point or illustrate a particular subject, not having the importance of a regular treatise; a short disquisition on a subject of taste, philosophy, or common life. finch, n. [A.†   (source)
  • Mae glanced quickly to Bailey, and he seemed startled at what he'd said, knowing it was not in the spirit of the present endeavor.†   (source)
  • The ceaseless pursuit of data to quantify the value of any endeavor is catastrophic to true understanding.†   (source)
  • Yes, he continued in his thoughts, how fine almost any human endeavor can be made to sound when expressed in the proper French….†   (source)
  • And making sure this is a place where our humanity is respected, where our opinions are dignified, where our voices are heard—this is as important as any revenue, any stock price, any endeavor undertaken here.†   (source)
  • Stenton, who had initiated the endeavor, called it a lark, something they were doing, first of all, to see if it could be done—though there seemed to be no doubt, given the easy algorithms involved—and only secondarily for any scientific benefit.†   (source)
  • In Russia, whatever the endeavor, if the setting is glorious and the tenor grandiose, it will have its adherents.†   (source)
  • To be fair, he was no slouch in this endeavor and was even known throughout his department as something of a prodigy.†   (source)
  • In the early years of the twentieth century, there were those of his acquaintance who brought a new sense of urgency to their slightest endeavor.†   (source)
  • (which he said was a typical gringo way of looking at that endeavor), and "Able was I ere I saw Elba," which was what Napoleon supposedly said when he was sent into exile.†   (source)
  • In fact the Russians were thought to be well ahead of us in this endeavor, Eric said, soulful and mystical as they were, and we were desperate to catch up.†   (source)
  • Instead of these bouts with Arya, you should concentrate on improving your mastery over your thoughts; they are still woefully undisciplined…… Why, then, do you still persist with this futile endeavor?†   (source)
  • Hammers, saws, shouts, laughter, and innumerable other noises blended together in a happy hum of endeavor.†   (source)
  • Then after a six-month dry spell, I met Katherine VI during my third year at smart-kid summer camp, and we went together for a record seventeen days and she was excellent at both pottery and pull-ups, two fields of endeavor at which I have never excelled, and although between us we could have made an unstoppable force of intelligence and upper-body strength and coffee mug-making, she dumped me anyway.†   (source)
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