All 17 Uses
endeavor
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The Swiss Family Robinson
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- I myself, the anxious, loving father, stood in the stern, endeavouring to guide the raft with its precious burden to a safe landing-place.†
Chpt 1 *endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- While we were thus talking, Jack had been vainly endeavouring to open an oyster with his large knife.†
Chpt 1
- With God's help, let us endeavour to live here contentedly, thankful that we were not cast upon some bare and inhospitable island.†
Chpt 2unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- He screamed and plunged about as he endeavoured to shake or pull the creature off, but all in vain, it only clung the closer to his neck, making the most absurd grimaces.†
Chpt 2endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- 'Here is better food for your little friend,' said I to Fritz, who had been vainly endeavouring to persuade the monkey to taste dainty morsels of the food we had been eating.†
Chpt 2endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- For example, should not our very first endeavour to be the contriving of a better sort of habitation and a more secure retreat from wild beasts, as well as a separate place for our provisions?†
Chpt 2unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- Let us endeavour to save the lives of some of them, at least, and to take them with us.'†
Chpt 2
- While I was thus employed my sons were endeavouring to ascertain the height of the lowest branch of the tree from the ground.†
Chpt 3endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- 'My dear Elizabeth,' said I, 'this morning we will devote to the service of the Lord, and by means of a parable, I will endeavor to give the children some serious thought; but, without books, or the possibility of any of the usual Sunday occupations, we cannot keep them quiet the whole day; afterward, therefore I shall allow them to pursue any innocent recreation they choose, and in the cool of the evening we will take a walk.'†
Chpt 4
- I took some arrows, and endeavoured to point them with porcupine quills.†
Chpt 4endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- All her endeavours were vain: the cords were stout, and after a while she quieted down and stood exhausted and quivering.†
Chpt 8endeavours = attempts; or things attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavors.
- There was Ernest with a fluttering, screaming bird in either hand; while, with his foot, he was endeavouring to prevent his greedy little monkey from seizing the eggs.†
Chpt 8endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- In spite of our endeavours to keep ourselves busy, the time dragged heavily.†
Chpt 8endeavours = attempts; or things attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavors.
- Then desiring the competitors to load with small shot, I threw a little board as high as I possibly could up in the air, each in turn aiming at and endeavouring to hit it before it touched the ground.†
Chpt 9endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- Others, again, endeavoured to help one another, and stuck fast together: the more they pulled, and tugged, and kicked, the worse became their plight.†
Chpt 10endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- Endeavouring to console ourselves by petting our four remaining birds, we could not forget this disappointment, and all day long the dove-cot remained the centre of attraction.†
Chpt 10endeavouring = trying or attemptingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.
- From the other two she would willingly part, if they chose to return to Europe, with the understanding that they must endeavour to send out emigrants of a good class to join us, and form a prosperous colony, adding that she thought the island ought to continue to bear the name of our native country, even if inhabited in future time by colonists from England, as well as from Switzerland.†
Chpt 18unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
Definitions:
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(1)
(endeavor) to attempt; or a project or activity attempted
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)