All 23 Uses of
endeavor
in
Walden
- I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man.†
Chpt 1
- The farmer is endeavoring to solve the problem of a livelihood by a formula more complicated than the problem itself.†
Chpt 1
- I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.†
Chpt 1
- Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world.†
Chpt 1
- I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.†
Chpt 2
- Half-witted men from the almshouse and elsewhere came to see me; but I endeavored to make them exercise all the wit they had, and make their confessions to me; in such cases making wit the theme of our conversation; and so was compensated.†
Chpt 6
- It seemed by the distant hum as if somebody's bees had swarmed, and that the neighbors, according to Virgil's advice, by a faint tintinnabulum upon the most sonorous of their domestic utensils, were endeavoring to call them down into the hive again.†
Chpt 7
- But the only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a mode of life as may enable you to do without these, and where the state does not endeavor to compel you to sustain the slavery and war and other superfluous expenses which directly or indirectly result from the use of such things.†
Chpt 10
- Beside, there is something essentially unclean about this diet and all flesh, and I began to see where housework commences, and whence the endeavor, which costs so much, to wear a tidy and respectable appearance each day, to keep the house sweet and free from all ill odors and sights.†
Chpt 11
- I know of many systems of religion esteemed heathenish whose precepts fill the reader with shame, and provoke him to new endeavors, though it be to the performance of rites merely.†
Chpt 11
- …under the tumbler, and when I looked again the black soldier had severed the heads of his foes from their bodies, and the still living heads were hanging on either side of him like ghastly trophies at his saddle-bow, still apparently as firmly fastened as ever, and he was endeavoring with feeble struggles, being without feelers and with only the remnant of a leg, and I know not how many other wounds, to divest himself of them; which at length, after half an hour more, he accomplished.†
Chpt 12
- If I endeavored to overtake him in a boat, in order to see how he would manoeuvre, he would dive and be completely lost, so that I did not discover him again, sometimes, till the latter part of the day.†
Chpt 12
- While he was thinking one thing in his brain, I was endeavoring to divine his thought in mine.†
Chpt 12
- I found that it was as well for me to rest on my oars and wait his reappearing as to endeavor to calculate where he would rise; for again and again, when I was straining my eyes over the surface one way, I would suddenly be startled by his unearthly laugh behind me.†
Chpt 12
- I withdrew yet farther into my shell, and endeavored to keep a bright fire both within my house and within my breast.†
Chpt 13
- There was only a narrow slit left between their lids, by which he preserved a pennisular relation to me; thus, with half-shut eyes, looking out from the land of dreams, and endeavoring to realize me, vague object or mote that interrupted his visions.†
Chpt 14
- Then, sitting on a pitch pine bough, they attempt to swallow in their haste a kernel which is too big for their throats and chokes them; and after great labor they disgorge it, and spend an hour in the endeavor to crack it by repeated blows with their bills.†
Chpt 15
- The Pond in Winter After a still winter night I awoke with the impression that some question had been put to me, which I had been endeavoring in vain to answer in my sleep, as what—how—when—where?†
Chpt 16
- I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.†
Chpt 18
- While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?†
Chpt 18
- While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?†
Chpt 18
- Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.
Chpt 18 *endeavor = try or attempt
- As I stand over the insect crawling amid the pine needles on the forest floor, and endeavoring to conceal itself from my sight, and ask myself why it will cherish those humble thoughts, and bide its head from me who might, perhaps, be its benefactor, and impart to its race some cheering information, I am reminded of the greater Benefactor and Intelligence that stands over me the human insect.†
Chpt 18
Definition:
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(endeavor) to attempt; or a project or activity attempted