All 7 Uses of
endeavor
in
The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Evidences of her care, of her endeavours for improvement, were visible all around, in the form of books, sketches, maps, and little arrangements for tasteful effects.†
Chpt 21 *endeavours = attempts; or things attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavors.
- As soon as I knew she was no more, it was brought home to me very forcibly by my conscience that I ought to endeavour to disperse the shade which my etourderie flung over my name, by asking you to carry out your promise to me.†
Chpt 22unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- Often did Elizabeth-Jane, in her endeavours to prevent his taking other liquor, carry tea to him in a little basket at five o'clock.†
Chpt 33endeavours = attempts; or things attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavors.
- Reflecting, she endeavoured to assure herself that the movement was an idle eccentricity, and no more.†
Chpt 33endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- To heighten her natural attraction had hitherto been the unvarying endeavour of her adult life, and one in which she was no novice.†
Chpt 35unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- With his right he endeavoured to get hold of his antagonist's left arm, which, however, he could not do, so adroitly did Henchard keep it in the rear as he gazed upon the lowered eyes of his fair and slim antagonist.†
Chpt 38endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- To make one more attempt to be near her: to go back, to see her, to plead his cause before her, to ask forgiveness for his fraud, to endeavour strenuously to hold his own in her love; it was worth the risk of repulse, ay, of life itself.†
Chpt 44unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
Definition:
to attempt; or a project or activity attempted