All 19 Uses
endeavor
in
Northanger Abbey
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- "Very agreeable indeed," she replied, vainly endeavouring to hide a great yawn.†
Chpt 2endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- James and Isabella led the way; and so well satisfied was the latter with her lot, so contentedly was she endeavouring to ensure a pleasant walk to him who brought the double recommendation of being her brother's friend, and her friend's brother, so pure and uncoquettish were her feelings, that, though they overtook and passed the two offending young men in Milsom Street, she was so far from seeking to attract their notice, that she looked back at them only three times.†
Chpt 7
- Catherine's resolution of endeavouring to meet Miss Tilney again continued in full force the next morning; and till the usual moment of going to the pump-room, she felt some alarm from the dread of a second prevention.†
Chpt 10
- You will allow, that in both, man has the advantage of choice, woman only the power of refusal; that in both, it is an engagement between man and woman, formed for the advantage of each; and that when once entered into, they belong exclusively to each other till the moment of its dissolution; that it is their duty, each to endeavour to give the other no cause for wishing that he or she had bestowed themselves elsewhere, and their best interest to keep their own imaginations from wandering towards the perfections of their neighbours, or fancying that they should have been better off with anyone else.†
Chpt 10unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- Thorpe then said something in the loud, incoherent way to which he had often recourse, about its being a d—thing to be miserly; and that if people who rolled in money could not afford things, he did not know who could, which Catherine did not even endeavour to understand.†
Chpt 11
- "Government," said Henry, endeavouring not to smile, "neither desires nor dares to interfere in such matters.†
Chpt 14endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- Catherine endeavoured to persuade her, as she was herself persuaded, that her father and mother would never oppose their son's wishes.†
Chpt 15endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- Catherine was with her friend again the next day, endeavouring to support her spirits and while away the many tedious hours before the delivery of the letters; a needful exertion, for as the time of reasonable expectation drew near, Isabella became more and more desponding, and before the letter arrived, had worked herself into a state of real distress.†
Chpt 15endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- She endeavoured to believe that the delay of the marriage was the only source of Isabella's regret; and when she saw her at their next interview as cheerful and amiable as ever, endeavoured to forget that she had for a minute thought otherwise.†
Chpt 16endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- She endeavoured to believe that the delay of the marriage was the only source of Isabella's regret; and when she saw her at their next interview as cheerful and amiable as ever, endeavoured to forget that she had for a minute thought otherwise.†
Chpt 16
- 'Tis true, we can offer you nothing like the gaieties of this lively place; we can tempt you neither by amusement nor splendour, for our mode of living, as you see, is plain and unpretending; yet no endeavours shall be wanting on our side to make Northanger Abbey not wholly disagreeable.†
Chpt 17endeavours = attempts; or things attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavors.
- Persuasion is not at command; but pardon me, if I cannot even endeavour to persuade him.†
Chpt 19unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- A moment's glance was enough to satisfy Catherine that her apartment was very unlike the one which Henry had endeavoured to alarm her by the description of.†
Chpt 21endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- Her agitation as they entered the great gallery was too much for any endeavour at discourse; she could only look at her companion.†
Chpt 24unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- She said nothing; and Eleanor, endeavouring to collect herself and speak with firmness, but with eyes still cast down, soon went on.
Chpt 28 *endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- As they walked home again, Mrs. Morland endeavoured to impress on her daughter's mind the happiness of having such steady well-wishers as Mr. and Mrs. Allen, and the very little consideration which the neglect or unkindness of slight acquaintance like the Tilneys ought to have with her, while she could preserve the good opinion and affection of her earliest friends.†
Chpt 29endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- Catherine said no more, and, with an endeavour to do right, applied to her work; but, after a few minutes, sunk again, without knowing it herself, into languor and listlessness, moving herself in her chair, from the irritation of weariness, much oftener than she moved her needle.†
Chpt 30unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- That they were false, the general had learnt from the very person who had suggested them, from Thorpe himself, whom he had chanced to meet again in town, and who, under the influence of exactly opposite feelings, irritated by Catherine's refusal, and yet more by the failure of a very recent endeavour to accomplish a reconciliation between Morland and Isabella, convinced that they were separated forever, and spurning a friendship which could be no longer serviceable, hastened to contradict all that he had said before to the advantage of the Morlands—confessed himself to have been totally mistaken in his opinion of their circumstances and character, misled by the rhodomontade of his friend to†
Chpt 30
- They felt and they deplored—but they could not resent it; and they parted, endeavouring to hope that such a change in the general, as each believed almost impossible, might speedily take place, to unite them again in the fullness of privileged affection.†
Chpt 31endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
Definitions:
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(1)
(endeavor) to attempt; or a project or activity attempted
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)