All 6 Uses of
endeavor
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- —I have no money but if you will lend me your attention I shall endeavour to sing to you of a heart bowed down.†
Chpt 11unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- But could he not have endeavoured to have found again as in his youth the bottle Holiness that then he lived withal?†
Chpt 14endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- In vain the voice of Mr Canvasser Bloom was heard endeavouring to urge, to mollify, to refrain.†
Chpt 14 *endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- Eventually, however, both their eyes met and as soon as it began to dawn on him that the other was endeavouring to help himself to the thing he involuntarily determined to help him himself and so he accordingly took hold of the neck of the mediumsized glass recipient which contained the fluid sought after and made a capacious hole in it by pouring a lot of it out with, also at the same time, however, a considerable degree of attentiveness in order not to upset any of the beer that was in it about the place.†
Chpt 14
- But as he confidently anticipated there was not a sign of a Jehu plying for hire anywhere to be seen except a fourwheeler, probably engaged by some fellows inside on the spree, outside the North Star hotel and there was no symptom of its budging a quarter of an inch when Mr Bloom, who was anything but a professional whistler, endeavoured to hail it by emitting a kind of a whistle, holding his arms arched over his head, twice.†
Chpt 16endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- He put his hand in a pocket anyhow not with the idea of finding any food there but thinking he might lend him anything up to a bob or so in lieu so that he might endeavour at all events and get sufficient to eat but the result was in the negative for, to his chagrin, he found his cash missing.†
Chpt 16unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
Definition:
to attempt; or a project or activity attempted