All 22 Uses
endeavor
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Don Quixote
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- "So it does," said Don Quixote, "and he is a sage magician, a great enemy of mine, who has a spite against me because he knows by his arts and lore that in process of time I am to engage in single combat with a knight whom he befriends and that I am to conquer, and he will be unable to prevent it; and for this reason he endeavours to do me all the ill turns that he can; but I promise him it will be hard for him to oppose or avoid what is decreed by Heaven."†
Chpt 1.7-8endeavours = attempts; or things attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavors.
- "That is what vexes me, and what ought to vex thee, Sancho," replied Don Quixote; "but henceforward I will endeavour to have at hand some sword made by such craft that no kind of enchantments can take effect upon him who carries it, and it is even possible that fortune may procure for me that which belonged to Amadis when he was called 'The Knight of the Burning Sword,' which was one of the best swords that ever knight in the world possessed, for, besides having the said virtue, it cut like a razor, and there was no armour, however strong and enchanted it might be, that could resist it."†
Chpt 1.17-18unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- Gines de Pasamonte made answer for all, saying, "That which you, sir, our deliverer, demand of us, is of all impossibilities the most impossible to comply with, because we cannot go together along the roads, but only singly and separate, and each one his own way, endeavouring to hide ourselves in the bowels of the earth to escape the Holy Brotherhood, which, no doubt, will come out in search of us.†
Chpt 1.21-22endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- I say, too, that when a painter desires to become famous in his art he endeavours to copy the originals of the rarest painters that he knows; and the same rule holds good for all the most important crafts and callings that serve to adorn a state; thus must he who would be esteemed prudent and patient imitate Ulysses, in whose person and labours Homer presents to us a lively picture of prudence and patience; as Virgil, too, shows us in the person of AEneas the virtue of a pious son and the sagacity of a brave and skilful captain; not representing or describing them as they were, but as they ought to be, so as to leave the example of their virtues to posterity.†
Chpt 1.25-26endeavours = attempts; or things attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavors.
- He told them, moreover, how his lord, if he brought him a favourable answer from the lady Dulcinea del Toboso, was to put himself in the way of endeavouring to become an emperor, or at least a monarch; for it had been so settled between them, and with his personal worth and the might of his arm it was an easy matter to come to be one: and how on becoming one his lord was to make a marriage for him (for he would be a widower by that time, as a matter of course) and was to give him as a wife one of the damsels of the empress, the heiress of some rich and grand state on the mainland, having nothing to do with islands of any sort, for he did not care for them now.†
Chpt 1.25-26endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- And he had no doubt that Don Quixote would comply with any request made in these terms, and that in this way they might remove him and take him to his own village, where they would endeavour to find out if his extraordinary madness admitted of any kind of remedy.†
Chpt 1.25-26 *unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- With this object they resolved to show themselves, and at the stir they made in getting upon their feet the fair damsel raised her head, and parting her hair from before her eyes with both hands, she looked to see who had made the noise, and the instant she perceived them she started to her feet, and without waiting to put on her shoes or gather up her hair, hastily snatched up a bundle as though of clothes that she had beside her, and, scared and alarmed, endeavoured to take flight;†
Chpt 1.27-28endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- for, I know not how long since, I have been harassed and oppressed by a desire so strange and so unusual, that I wonder at myself and blame and chide myself when I am alone, and strive to stifle it and hide it from my own thoughts, and with no better success than if I were endeavouring deliberately to publish it to all the world;†
Chpt 1.33-34endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- though thenceforward he need not make use of the same earnest endeavours as before;†
Chpt 1.33-34endeavours = attempts; or things attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavors.
- Compose yourself, señora, and endeavour to calm your excitement lest my lord find you agitated; and leave the rest to my care and God's, who always supports good intentions.†
Chpt 1.33-34unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- In all our conjectures we were wide of the truth; so from that time forward our sole occupation was watching and gazing at the window where the cross had appeared to us, as if it were our pole-star; but at least fifteen days passed without our seeing either it or the hand, or any other sign and though meanwhile we endeavoured with the utmost pains to ascertain who it was that lived in the house, and whether there were any Christian renegade in it, nobody could ever tell us anything more than that he who lived there was a rich Moor of high position, Hadji Morato by name, formerly alcaide of La Pata, an office of high dignity among them.†
Chpt 1.39-40endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- Endeavour to make thyself acquainted with the garden; and when I see thee walking yonder I shall know that the bano is empty and I will give thee abundance of money.†
Chpt 1.39-40unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- and it immediately suggested itself to his imagination that, as on the former occasion, the fair damsel, the daughter of the lady of the castle, overcome by love for him, was once more endeavouring to win his affections;†
Chpt 1.43-44endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- Cardenio then bade Dorothea return to her room, as he would endeavour to make the whole matter right, and they did as he desired.†
Chpt 1.43-44unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- While Don Quixote was talking in this strain, the curate was endeavouring to persuade the officers that he was out of his senses, as they might perceive by his deeds and his words, and that they need not press the matter any further, for even if they arrested him and carried him off, they would have to release him by-and-by as a madman; to which the holder of the warrant replied that he had nothing to do with inquiring into Don Quixote's madness, but only to execute his superior's orders, and that once taken they might let him go three hundred times if they liked.†
Chpt 1.45-46endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- And though I have sometimes endeavoured to convince actors that they are mistaken in this notion they have adopted, and that they would attract more people, and get more credit, by producing plays in accordance with the rules of art, than by absurd ones, they are so thoroughly wedded to their own opinion that no argument or evidence can wean them from it.†
Chpt 1.47-48endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- My only endeavour is to convince the world of the mistake it makes in not reviving in itself the happy time when the order of knight-errantry was in the field.†
Chpt 2.1-2unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- The one with the trough pursued him and followed him everywhere he went, endeavouring with the utmost persistence to thrust it under his chin, while another kitchen-boy seemed anxious to wash his beard.†
Chpt 2.31-32endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- Sancho listened to him with the deepest attention, and endeavoured to fix his counsels in his memory, like one who meant to follow them and by their means bring the full promise of his government to a happy issue.†
Chpt 2.43-44endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- Sancho gave her the best comfort he could, and entreated her to tell them without any fear what had happened her, as they would all earnestly and by every means in their power endeavour to relieve her.†
Chpt 2.49-50unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- This sin, so far as it has lain in my power, I have endeavoured to avoid ever since I have enjoyed the faculty of reason; and if I am unable to requite good deeds that have been done me by other deeds, I substitute the desire to do so; and if that be not enough I make them known publicly; for he who declares and makes known the good deeds done to him would repay them by others if it were in his power, and for the most part those who receive are the inferiors of those who give.†
Chpt 2.57-58endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- I implore of you not to betray me, or tell Don Quixote who I am; so that my honest endeavours may be successful, and that a man of excellent wits—were he only rid of the fooleries of chivalry—may get them back again.†
Chpt 2.65-66endeavours = attempts; or things attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavors.
Definitions:
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(1)
(endeavor) to attempt; or a project or activity attempted
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)