All 14 Uses
endeavor
in
The Return of the Native
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- The deaf Dr. Kitto was probably under the influence of a parallel fancy when he described his body as having become, by long endeavour, so sensitive to vibrations that he had gained the power of perceiving by it as by ears.†
Chpt 2unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- On a ledge in the fuel-house stood three tall rush-lights and by the light of them seven or eight lads were marching about, haranguing, and confusing each other, in endeavours to perfect themselves in the play.†
Chpt 2 *endeavours = attempts; or things attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavors.
- Without being thought-worn he yet had certain marks derived from a perception of his surroundings, such as are not unfrequently found on men at the end of the four or five years of endeavour which follow the close of placid pupilage.†
Chpt 2unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- I was endeavouring to put off one sort of life for another sort of life, which was not better than the life I had known before.†
Chpt 3endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- She started: then endeavoured to say calmly, "Cynics say that cures the anxiety by curing the love."†
Chpt 3endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- She endeavoured to make light of the wedding; and brought news of the preparations, and that she was invited to be present.†
Chpt 3
- The only living thing that entered now was a sparrow; and seeing no movements to cause alarm, he hopped boldly round the room, endeavoured to go out by the window, and fluttered among the pot-flowers.†
Chpt 3
- The vision of what ought to have been is thrown aside in sheer weariness, and browbeaten human endeavour listlessly makes the best of the fact that is.†
Chpt 3unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- "Oh!" said Mrs. Yeobright, vainly endeavouring to control her anger.†
Chpt 4endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- Endeavouring to take the trouble as philosophically as possible, he waited on till the third week had arrived, when he went into the open air for the first time since the attack.†
Chpt 4
- For this reason he busily endeavoured to provide her with pleasant distractions, bringing home curious objects which he found in the heath, such as white trumpet-shaped mosses, red-headed lichens, stone arrow-heads used by the old tribes on Egdon, and faceted crystals from the hollows of flints.†
Chpt 5endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- She began moulding the wax; and it was evident from her manner of manipulation that she was endeavouring to give it some preconceived form.†
Chpt 5endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- The only sign upon him of his recent struggle for life was in his finger-tips, which were worn and sacrificed in his dying endeavours to obtain a hold on the face of the weir-wall.†
Chpt 5endeavours = attempts; or things attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavors.
- Human beings, in their generous endeavour to construct a hypothesis that shall not degrade a First Cause, have always hesitated to conceive a dominant power of lower moral quality than their own; and, even while they sit down and weep by the waters of Babylon, invent excuses for the oppression which prompts their tears.†
Chpt 6unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
Definitions:
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(1)
(endeavor) to attempt; or a project or activity attempted
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)