All 6 Uses of
endeavor
in
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
- ... a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth.
p. 10.4 *endeavouring = tryingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- He was endeavouring to pierce the darkness with his ferret eyes, when the chimes of a neighbouring church struck the four quarters.
p. 29.2
- The more he thought, the more perplexed he was; and the more he endeavoured not to think, the more he thought.†
p. 30.6endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- There was nothing very cheerful in the climate or the town, and yet was there an air of cheerfulness abroad that the clearest summer air and brightest summer sun might have endeavoured to diffuse in vain.†
p. 62.6
- If you had fallen up against him (as some of them did), on purpose, he would have made a feint of endeavouring to seize you, which would have been an affront to your understanding, and would instantly have sidled off in the direction of the plump sister.
p. 85.5endeavouring = tryingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- I'll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family,
p. 125.9endeavour = tryunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
Definition:
to attempt; or a project or activity attempted