All 50 Uses of
endeavor
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil, I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection.
p. 19.4endeavour = try or attemptunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- It is true that I have thought more and that my daydreams are more extended and magnificent, but they want (as the painters call it) KEEPING; and I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to endeavour to regulate my mind.
p. 20.2endeavour = attemptunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- But success SHALL crown my endeavours.
p. 23.9endeavours = attemptsunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavors.
- Sometimes I have endeavoured to discover what quality it is which he possesses that elevates him so immeasurably above any other person I ever knew.
p. 30.7endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- He lost no time in endeavouring to seek him out, with the hope of persuading him to begin the world again through his credit and assistance.
p. 33.9endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- But these are not thoughts befitting me; I will endeavour to resign myself cheerfully to death and will indulge a hope of meeting you in another world.
p. 45.0endeavour = try or attemptunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- She forgot even her own regret in her endeavours to make us forget.
p. 45.9endeavours = attemptsunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavors.
- He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student, but in vain.
p. 46.0endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- I, who had ever been surrounded by amiable companions, continually engaged in endeavouring to bestow mutual pleasure—I was now alone.
p. 46.6endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- Not that, like a magic scene, it all opened upon me at once: the information I had obtained was of a nature rather to direct my endeavours so soon as I should point them towards the object of my search than to exhibit that object already accomplished.
p. 53.9endeavours = attemptsunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavors.
- How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form?
p. 58.4endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- At length lassitude succeeded to the tumult I had before endured, and I threw myself on the bed in my clothes, endeavouring to seek a few moments of forgetfulness.
p. 59.1endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- I continued walking in this manner for some time, endeavouring by bodily exercise to ease the load that weighed upon my mind.
p. 60.4 *endeavouring = tryingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- She thought her the model of all excellence and endeavoured to imitate her phraseology and manners, so that even now she often reminds me of her.
p. 67.2endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- Excellent friend! how sincerely you did love me, and endeavour to elevate my mind until it was on a level with your own.
p. 71.5endeavour = attemptunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- I was undisturbed by thoughts which during the preceding year had pressed upon me, notwithstanding my endeavours to throw them off, with an invincible burden.
p. 71.8endeavours = attemptsunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavors.
- During our walk, Clerval endeavoured to say a few words of consolation; he could only express his heartfelt sympathy.
p. 75.5endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- I saw unhappiness deeply impressed on his countenance, but he endeavoured to welcome me cheerfully; and, after we had exchanged our mournful greeting, would have introduced some other topic than that of our disaster, had not Ernest exclaimed, "Good God, papa!"
p. 81.1
- It was dawn, and she quitted her asylum, that she might again endeavour to find my brother.
p. 85.3endeavour = attemptunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- I had before experienced sensations of horror, and I have endeavoured to bestow upon them adequate expressions, but words cannot convey an idea of the heart-sickening despair that I then endured.
p. 87.2endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- My father observed with pain the alteration perceptible in my disposition and habits and endeavoured by arguments deduced from the feelings of his serene conscience and guiltless life to inspire me with fortitude and awaken in me the courage to dispel the dark cloud which brooded over me.
p. 93.9
- Now I could only answer my father with a look of despair and endeavour to hide myself from his view.
p. 94.3endeavour = attemptunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- I feel as if I were walking on the edge of a precipice, towards which thousands are crowding and endeavouring to plunge me into the abyss.
p. 96.3endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- I remembered too well the treatment I had suffered the night before from the barbarous villagers, and resolved, whatever course of conduct I might hereafter think it right to pursue, that for the present I would remain quietly in my hovel, watching and endeavouring to discover the motives which influenced their actions.
p. 113.3
- The old man, I could perceive, often endeavoured to encourage his children, as sometimes I found that he called them, to cast off their melancholy.
p. 115.8endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- Agatha listened with respect, her eyes sometimes filled with tears, which she endeavoured to wipe away unperceived; but I generally found that her countenance and tone were more cheerful after having listened to the exhortations of her father.
p. 115.9
- I improved, however, sensibly in this science, but not sufficiently to follow up any kind of conversation, although I applied my whole mind to the endeavour, for I easily perceived that, although I eagerly longed to discover myself to the cottagers, I ought not to make the attempt until I had first become master of their language, which knowledge might enable me to make them overlook the deformity of my figure, for with this also the contrast perpetually presented to my eyes had made…
p. 116.7endeavour = attemptunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- Presently I found, by the frequent recurrence of some sound which the stranger repeated after them, that she was endeavouring to learn their language; and the idea instantly occurred to me that I should make use of the same instructions to the same end.
p. 120.7endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- The old man appeared enraptured and said some words which Agatha endeavoured to explain to Safie, and by which he appeared to wish to express that she bestowed on him the greatest delight by her music.
p. 121.4endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- The Turk, amazed and delighted, endeavoured to kindle the zeal of his deliverer by promises of reward and wealth.
p. 126.1
- The Turk quickly perceived the impression that his daughter had made on the heart of Felix and endeavoured to secure him more entirely in his interests by the promise of her hand in marriage so soon as he should be conveyed to a place of safety.
p. 126.3
- I endeavoured to crush these fears and to fortify myself for the trial which in a few months I resolved to undergo; and sometimes I allowed my thoughts, unchecked by reason, to ramble in the fields of Paradise, and dared to fancy amiable and lovely creatures sympathizing with my feelings and cheering my gloom; their angelic countenances breathed smiles of consolation.
p. 133.9
- She was senseless, and I endeavoured by every means in my power to restore animation, when I was suddenly interrupted by the approach of a rustic, who was probably the person from whom she had playfully fled.
p. 143.1
- For some weeks I led a miserable life in the woods, endeavouring to cure the wound which I had received.
p. 143.6endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- I revolved rapidly in my mind a multitude of thoughts and endeavoured to arrive at some conclusion.
p. 157.2endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- We passed a considerable period at Oxford, rambling among its environs and endeavouring to identify every spot which might relate to the most animating epoch of English history.
p. 165.8endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- In a few minutes after, I heard the creaking of my door, as if some one endeavoured to open it softly.
p. 172.0endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- I trembled from head to foot; I felt a presentiment of who it was and wished to rouse one of the peasants who dwelt in a cottage not far from mine; but I was overcome by the sensation of helplessness, so often felt in frightful dreams, when you in vain endeavour to fly from an impending danger, and was rooted to the spot.
p. 172.1endeavour = attemptunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- I endeavoured to change my course but quickly found that if I again made the attempt the boat would be instantly filled with water.
p. 176.4endeavoured = triedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- They instantly carried it to the cottage of an old woman near the spot and endeavoured, but in vain, to restore it to life.
p. 179.9endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- My father calmed me with assurances of their welfare and endeavoured, by dwelling on these subjects so interesting to my heart, to raise my desponding spirits; but he soon felt that a prison cannot be the abode of cheerfulness.†
p. 185.4
- At these moments I often endeavoured to put an end to the existence I loathed, and it required unceasing attendance and vigilance to restrain me from committing some dreadful act of violence.†
p. 187.2
- Sometimes he thought that I felt deeply the degradation of being obliged to answer a charge of murder, and he endeavoured to prove to me the futility of pride.†
p. 189.7
- The conclusion of this speech convinced my father that my ideas were deranged, and he instantly changed the subject of our conversation and endeavoured to alter the course of my thoughts.†
p. 190.8
- Chase away your idle fears; to you alone do I consecrate my life and my endeavours for contentment.
p. 193.8endeavours = attemptsunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavors.
- When reason returned, she would remonstrate and endeavour to inspire me with resignation.
p. 194.6endeavour = attemptunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- …we enjoyed the beauty of the scene, sometimes on one side of the lake, where we saw Mont Saleve, the pleasant banks of Montalegre, and at a distance, surmounting all, the beautiful Mont Blanc and the assemblage of snowy mountains that in vain endeavour to emulate her;
p. 196.9
- If you knew what I have suffered and what I may yet endure, you would endeavour to let me taste the quiet and freedom from despair that this one day at least permits me to enjoy.
p. 197.1endeavour = try or attemptunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- Thus Elizabeth endeavoured to divert her thoughts and mine from all reflection upon melancholy subjects.†
p. 197.5endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- He endeavoured to soothe me as a nurse does a child and reverted to my tale as the effects of delirium.†
p. 204.7
Definition:
to attempt; or a project or activity attempted