All 29 Uses of
endeavor
in
The Prairie, by Cooper
- "Well, since it is your wish, Ellen," returned the youth, endeavouring to swallow his spleen, "I will make the trial; though, as you ought to know, it is part of the religion of a Kentuckian to fret himself a little at a mischance."†
Chpt 4 *endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- "I should be ashamed of my profession," he said, swallowing a morsel of the hump with evident delight, slily endeavouring at the same time to distinguish the peculiarities of the singed and defaced skin, "I ought to be ashamed of my profession, were there beast, or bird, on the continent of America, that I could not tell by some one of the many evidences which science has enlisted in her cause.†
Chpt 9
- Looking around, at the juvenile and frightened flock that pressed upon the skirts of her garments, she endeavoured to recall to her confused faculties some one of the many tales of female heroism, with which the history of the western frontier abounded.†
Chpt 14endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- When these dispositions were made, she endeavoured to await the issue, with an air of composure, that she intended should inspire her assistants with the confidence necessary to ensure success.†
Chpt 14
- Father Ignatius had many doubts, and much secret compunction of conscience; but, like a wise chief, he endeavoured to turn the sad event to some account, in the impending warfare of faith.†
Chpt 15
- He found himself, at length, compelled to divide his followers, appointing a place of rendezvous at a distant day, and to endeavour to find the lost trail by multiplying, as much as possible, the number of his eyes.†
Chpt 15unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- There was a keen and subtle trial of skill between the Pawnee and the trapper, in which each endeavoured to discover the objects of the other, without betraying his own interest in the investigation.†
Chpt 18endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- The most sturdy and furious of the bulls trembled at the alarming and unknown cry, and then each individual brute was seen madly pressing from that very thicket, which, the moment before, he had endeavoured to reach, with the eagerness with which the murderer seeks the sanctuary.†
Chpt 19
- The words were still on his tongue, when the bushes on the side of the thicket where they stood, opened, and the whole of the party whom he had just left, and in whose behalf he was endeavouring to reconcile his love of truth to the necessity of prevaricating, came openly into view.†
Chpt 20endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- "Now let us depart!" exclaimed Obed, endeavouring to catch a furtive glimpse of the lead, which he fancied was whizzing at his very ear; "we have maintained the bank in a gallant manner, for a sufficient length of time; quite as much military skill is to be displayed in a retreat, as in an advance."†
Chpt 24
- "Harkee, old trapper," he shouted, vainly endeavouring at the same time to make a gesture of defiance with his hand; "if you ar' about to play the interpreter, speak such words to the ears of that damnable savage, as becomes a white man to use, and a heathen to hear.†
Chpt 26
- We shall not detain the narrative, to relate the quaint morals with which he next endeavoured to cheer the drooping spirits of his more sensitive companion, or the occasional pithy and peculiar benedictions that he pronounced, on all the bands of the Dahcotahs, commencing with those whom he accused of stealing or murdering, on the banks of the distant Mississippi, and concluding, in terms of suitable energy, with the Teton tribe.†
Chpt 26endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- We have every where endeavoured to show that while Mahtoree was in all essentials a warrior of the prairies, he was much in advance of his people in those acquirements which announce the dawnings of civilisation.†
Chpt 26
- He felt the disadvantage of this circumstance, and endeavoured to counteract it, as far as possible, by the excess of his humility.†
Chpt 27
- As they entered the ring, Mahtoree, who had foreseen and had endeavoured to anticipate the influence of the Doctor, by bringing him into contempt, cast an eye around the assembly, in order to gather his success in the various dark visages by which he was encircled.†
Chpt 27
- The women kept time to his cruelties with their taunts, and endeavoured to force some expression of the lingerings of nature from the insensible features of the Pawnee.†
Chpt 28
- "Truly, old trapper," returned Paul, stretching his limbs, which were by this time entirely released, and endeavouring to restore the suspended circulation, "you have some judgmatical notions in these matters.†
Chpt 29endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- We left the adverse bands watching one another on the opposite banks of the stream, each endeavouring to excite its enemy to some act of indiscretion, by the most reproachful taunts and revilings.†
Chpt 30
- Instead of any longer throwing away the precious moments, in fruitless endeavours to induce his foe to cross the stream, the young partisan of the Pawnees led his troops, at a swift gallop, along its margin, in quest of some favourable spot, where by a sudden push he might throw his own band without loss to the opposite shore.†
Chpt 30endeavours = attempts; or things attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavors.
- A few of the fugitives endeavoured to bear away the bodies of their fallen warriors, but the hot pursuit quickly compelled them to abandon the slain, in order to preserve the living.†
Chpt 30endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- "That there did exist a certain compactum, or agreement, between Obed Batt, M.D., and Ishmael Bush, viator, or erratic husbandman," he said, endeavouring to avoid all offence in the use of terms, "I am not disposed to deny.†
Chpt 31endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- After throwing a glance around him, with the vain wish of finding a single countenance in which he might detect a solitary gleam of sympathy, he endeavoured to smother those apprehensions, that were by this time reviving in their original violence, by forcing a sort of friendly communication between himself and the squatter— "The beasts are getting jaded, brother," he said, "and as we have made so good a march already, is it not time to camp.†
Chpt 32endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- A lodge was yielded to the exclusive possession of Inez and Ellen; and even Paul, when he saw an armed sentinel in the uniform of the States, pacing before its entrance, was content to stray among the dwellings of the "Red-skins," prying with but little reserve into their domestic economy, commenting sometimes jocularly, sometimes gravely, and always freely, on their different expedients, or endeavouring to make the wondering housewives comprehend his quaint explanations of what he conceived to be the better customs of the whites.†
Chpt 33endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- Feeling that the sentiment of distrust was strongly engrafted in the tempers of his tribe, he rather endeavoured to soothe any just resentment they might entertain, by indirect excuses and apologies.†
Chpt 33endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- "I had not thought of parting," answered Middleton, endeavouring to seek some relief from the uneasiness he felt, by turning his eyes on the sympathising countenances of his friends; "on the contrary, I had hoped and believed that you would have accompanied us below, where I give you a sacred pledge, nothing shall be wanting to make your days comfortable."†
Chpt 33endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- Yes, lad, yes; you would do your endeavours; but what are the strivings of man against the working of the devil!†
Chpt 33endeavours = attempts; or things attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavors.
- If you will set a value on your hound, I will endeavour to send it to you in the spring, more especially should them same traps come safe to hand; or, if you dislike parting with the animal altogether, I will just ask you for his loan through the winter.†
Chpt 33unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- Twenty times the Captain turned his glance on his former friend, endeavouring to read the expression of his rigid features.†
Chpt 34endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- Receiving no answering look, nor hearing any friendly whine, the old man felt for the mouth and endeavoured to force his hand between the cold lips.†
Chpt 34endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
Definition:
to attempt; or a project or activity attempted