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It was not that the sight of the wretched pony did not excite numerous smiles on the countenances of passers-by; but as against the side of this pony rattled a sword of respectable length, and as over this sword gleamed an eye rather ferocious than haughty, these passers-by repressed their hilarity, or if hilarity prevailed over prudence, they endeavored to laugh only on one side, like the masks of the ancients.†
Chpt 1.

endeavored = tried or attempted
Full, then, of this conviction, he pulled his cap down over his eyes, and endeavoring to copy some of the court airs he had picked up in Gascony among young traveling nobles, he advanced with one hand on the hilt of his sword and the other resting on his hip.†
Chpt 1.

endeavoring = trying or attempting
"He is a coward, indeed," grumbled the host, drawing near to d'Artagnan, and endeavoring by this little flattery to make up matters with the young man, as the heron of the fable did with the snail he had despised the evening before.†
Chpt 1.
One of them, stationed upon the top stair, naked sword in hand, prevented, or at least endeavored to prevent, the three others from ascending.†
Chpt 2. *

endeavored = tried or attempted
Well, Captain, he endeavored twice to get up, and fell again twice.†
Chpt 3.
You ought, I say, then, to husband the means you have, however large the sum may be; but you ought also to endeavor to perfect yourself in the exercises becoming a gentleman.†
Chpt 3.
Be assured that I am devoted to both these all-powerful masters, and that my earnest endeavors have no other aim than the service of the king, and also the cardinal—one of the most illustrious geniuses that France has ever produced.†
Chpt 3.

endeavors = attempts; or things attempted
"Excuse me," said d'Artagnan, endeavoring to resume his course, "excuse me, but I am in a hurry."†
Chpt 4.

endeavoring = trying or attempting
Endeavor not to make me wait; for at quarter past twelve I will cut off your ears as you run.†
Chpt 4.
No, certainly not, and from this moment I will endeavor to model myself after him.†
Chpt 4.
"Monsieur, you act wrongly in endeavoring to mortify me," said d'Artagnan, in whom the natural quarrelsome spirit began to speak more loudly than his pacific resolutions.†
Chpt 4.

endeavoring = trying or attempting
While he was endeavoring to find out which of his companions stood in greatest need, he caught a glance from Athos.†
Chpt 5.
"Quick to the Louvre," said he, "to the Louvre without losing an instant, and let us endeavor to see the king before he is prejudiced by the cardinal.†
Chpt 6.
But M. de la Tremouille—already prejudiced by his esquire, whose relative, as we already know, Bernajoux was—replied that it was neither for M. de Treville nor the Musketeers to complain, but, on the contrary, for him, whose people the Musketeers had assaulted and whose hotel they had endeavored to burn.†
Chpt 6.

endeavored = tried or attempted
"Monsieur," said M. de Treville, "we fancy that we have each cause to complain of the other, and I am come to endeavor to clear up this affair."†
Chpt 6.
The latter, on seeing these two noble lords who came to visit him, endeavored to raise himself up in his bed; but he was too weak, and exhausted by the effort, he fell back again almost senseless.†
Chpt 6.

endeavored = tried or attempted
Is it for this I name you captain of my Musketeers, that they should assassinate a man, disturb a whole quarter, and endeavor to set fire to Paris, without your saying a word?†
Chpt 6.
Will you tell me that they did not lay siege to the hotel of the Duc de la Tremouille, and that they did not endeavor to burn it?†
Chpt 6.
He had not so noble an air as Athos, and the commencement of their intimacy often rendered him unjust toward that gentleman, whom he endeavored to eclipse by his splendid dress.†
Chpt 7.

endeavored = tried or attempted
One day, when he had an appointment with a duchess, he endeavored even to borrow it of Athos.†
Chpt 7.
Go on, while I endeavor to recall circumstances.†
Chpt 9.
Cries were soon heard, and then moans, which someone appeared to be endeavoring to stifle.†
Chpt 10.

endeavoring = trying or attempting
It is true that the three others had endeavored to knock the young man down with chairs, stools, and crockery; but two or three scratches made by the Gascon's blade terrified them.†
Chpt 10.

endeavored = tried or attempted
I believed I had a right to endeavor to find her.†
Chpt 13.
"At least you should tell me what I should have to do in London," replied Bonacieux, who remembered a little too late that Rochefort had desired him to endeavor to obtain his wife's secrets.†
Chpt 17.
Toward two o'clock in the morning somebody endeavored to open the door; but as Planchet awoke in an instant and cried, "Who goes there?" somebody replied that he was mistaken, and went away.†
Chpt 20.

endeavored = tried or attempted
In fact, tightly held as he was, Lubin endeavored still to cry out.†
Chpt 20.
As they rode along, the duke endeavored to draw from d'Artagnan, not all that had happened, but what d'Artagnan himself knew.†
Chpt 21.
The old man read so much truth and so much grief in the face of the young man that he made him a sign to listen, and repeated in a low voice: "It was scarcely nine o'clock when I heard a noise in the street, and was wondering what it could be, when on coming to my door, I found that somebody was endeavoring to open it.†
Chpt 24.

endeavoring = trying or attempting
However, the revolution which appeared upon his countenance was so visible that Bonacieux was terrified at it, and he endeavored to draw back a step or two; but as he was standing before the half of the door which was shut, the obstacle compelled him to keep his place.†
Chpt 25.

endeavored = tried or attempted
As Monsieur Porthos is a very boastful man, he insists that nobody shall know he has received this wound except the duchess, whom he endeavored to interest by an account of his adventure.†
Chpt 25.
He resolved, then, to defend the door bravely; and as, betrayed by the mistress of the inn, he could not say that Aramis was absent, he endeavored to prove to the newcomer that it would be the height of indiscretion to disturb his master in his pious conference, which had commenced with the morning and would not, as Bazin said, terminate before night.†
Chpt 26.
I once endeavored to go down with two of my servants; but he flew into terrible rage.†
Chpt 27.
"That will do," said Milady; "go into your own room, and tomorrow endeavor again to get me an answer to the letter I gave you."†
Chpt 33.
"And how do you know it?" asked Milady, seizing both his hands, and endeavoring to read with her eyes to the bottom of his heart.†
Chpt 36.

endeavoring = trying or attempting
D'Artagnan left the hotel instead of going up at once to Kitty's chamber, as she endeavored to persuade him to do—and that for two reasons: the first, because by this means he should escape reproaches, recriminations, and prayers; the second, because he was not sorry to have an opportunity of reading his own thoughts and endeavoring, if possible, to fathom those of this woman.†
Chpt 37.

endeavored = tried or attempted
D'Artagnan left the hotel instead of going up at once to Kitty's chamber, as she endeavored to persuade him to do—and that for two reasons: the first, because by this means he should escape reproaches, recriminations, and prayers; the second, because he was not sorry to have an opportunity of reading his own thoughts and endeavoring, if possible, to fathom those of this woman.†
Chpt 37.

endeavoring = trying or attempting
Then d'Artagnan, who had never seriously thought of this impossible duel, endeavored to turn the conversation; but he could not succeed.†
Chpt 37.

endeavored = tried or attempted
But without taking any heed of the sword, Milady endeavored to get near enough to him to stab him, and did not stop till she felt the sharp point at her throat.†
Chpt 37.
Monseigneur, being of a very mild disposition, and being, likewise, of which Monseigneur perhaps is not aware, about to enter into orders, I endeavored to appease my comrades, when one of these wretches gave me a wound with a sword, treacherously, across my left arm.†
Chpt 43.
But do not touch with the tip of your finger a single hair of d'Artagnan, who is a faithful friend whom I love and defend, or I swear to you by the head of my father the crime which you shall have endeavored to commit, or shall have committed, shall be the last.†
Chpt 45.
He thought how one day, in a less dangerous situation than the one in which he was now placed, he had already endeavored to sacrifice her to his honor.†
Chpt 45.
Milady, pale as a corpse, endeavored to cry out; but her swollen tongue could utter no more than a hoarse sound which had nothing human in it and resembled the rattle of a wild beast.†
Chpt 45.
Their days were passed in endeavoring to catch all that was said, in observing the proceeding of the cardinal, and in looking out for all the couriers who arrived.†
Chpt 48.

endeavoring = trying or attempting
He knows how, as you must have observed, to obey an order—for you did not, I am sure, come from Portsmouth hither without endeavoring to make him speak.†
Chpt 50.

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(1) (endeavor)
to attempt; or a project or activity attempted
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