Both Uses
endeavor
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The Purloined Letter
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- After a hurried and vain endeavor to thrust it in a drawer, she was forced to place it, open as it was, upon a table.†
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- In short, I never yet encountered the mere mathematician who could be trusted out of equal roots, or one who did not clandestinely hold it as a point of his faith that x2+px was absolutely and unconditionally equal to q. Say to one of these gentlemen, by way of experiment, if you please, that you believe occasions may occur where x2+px is not altogether equal to q, and, having made him understand what you mean, get out of his reach as speedily as convenient, for, beyond doubt, he will endeavor to knock you down.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(endeavor) to attempt; or a project or activity attempted
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)