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Sentence Examples
And, the first role that he played was that of a 74-year-old, the oldest character he's ever essayed in his career.
George Reid, the Presiding Officer, essayed a bit of Gaelic, then introduced the Lewis psalm-singers.
Nevin scampered for space and from 30 metres essayed a left-footed shot over the bar.
Shortly thereafter, he essayed a hair transplant, which he covered with a bandanna to make sure it was noted.
Subsequently, Beckham essayed a long, high shot but this one, in contrast to the one that made it into the net, was comfortably caught by Jones.
Rajkumar essayed the role of many a mythological character as well as historical figures.
Some months ago, the Government essayed a crackdown on youths staying late at internet cafes.
Nield essayed the daunting, high lying solo flute line with brilliance and a lustrous tonal palette.
There he continued to write art criticism, a genre he had first essayed while editing Arise, a short-lived socialist periodical.
Previously, only the Pythons had essayed this all-goofball, no-straight-man arrangement – it was funny, but it wasn't sexy.
The newsreader forced a glassy smile and essayed a limp defence.
Satan, working through unconsecrated leaders of the church, tampered with the fourth commandment also, and essayed to set aside the ancient sabbath.
As far as we know, he essayed it on only four occasions.
But when the specialist literature is essayed more exactly, one sees that this statement applies to a concrete manufactured in Sweden with alum shale used as the additive material.
The social-democratic state essayed a response to the social rights question and the problem of equality of opportunity, but proved inefficient in a world where economic efficiency becomes increasingly pressing.
Ken played or essayed to play right field for a while, but he ran around like a chicken with its head off.
Williams essayed a Mummerset accent for some of the evening's items, including a Linden Lea encore which thereby lost its gentle dignity.
Strauss again looked in resplendent form until he got himself into a tangle against Charl Langeveldt and was caught off a leading edge before Pietersen essayed an unfeasible hoick.
Booklet: Apart from the booklet mentioned in the report, vigorous attempts will be essayed on to find the possibilities of publishing similar booklets.
He retraced his steps to the front gate, which he essayed to open.
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The macadamizers are at work here. Within the memory of living man, and men among these mountains live a century, it was never essayed to repair the road until now.
Examples from Classical Literature
Yea, though every knight in the realm essayed to unfasten that cincture, it would not yield, except to one alone.
Pray narrate to me, Ischomachus, I beg of you, what you first essayed to teach her.
Yet I stayed not in my going, as I quested through the deep-wooded hill, till I beheld him, and instantly essayed my prowess.
When I first essayed to part with you and journey homewards, I was doubly blest.
Thus the two men who essayed the role of emperor of Mexico ended their career.
Each time he essayed it, the other racer swerved in front and cut off the road.
After the Greenback party lost the place it had for a fleeting moment obtained, labor once more essayed the role of a third party.
Twice Old Tarwater essayed to rise and go on, and each time, warned by his shakiness, sank back to recover more strength.
The odd-job man, congratulating himself on extraordinary cunning, bent forward and essayed a kiss of welcome.
He drew the bolts, impelled Iscariot outward, and essayed to close the door.
No man ever essayed to malinger or to shirk a duty to which he had been allotted by the doctor.
His answer was a sigh, and when she chid him for it, he essayed a smile that was yet more melancholy.
I had already essayed to write, and was immensely keen on the mot juste, that Holy Grail of the period.
Mr. McClosky, apparently tracing out a pattern on the bedquilt, essayed words of comfort.
Stiff old steeds vainly essayed a nimbler gait, but gave it up in a few rods, and fell back to the steady jog.
Charlie, piqued at her inattentiveness, essayed a volubility foreign to his words.
Then one epochal day, emulating Tess's example, she essayed to ride astride.
So they went bobbing about in a tub, and we, with a like paucity of equipment, essayed to follow them.
The pitch-pipe rightly adjusted gave the proper keynote, and the clerk essayed to sing.
There was a man with tongue of wood Who essayed to sing, And in truth it was lamentable.
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Baby merely gurgled, and Poppylinda essayed to climb the declaimer's skirts.
The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.
He took the pen in his graspless hand, and essayed to write.
If any labor of mortal might break the spell that binds these waters, this which I have but just essayed had done it.
But the next moment from among them leaped a figure, alert, buoyant, invincible, and, axe in hand, once more essayed the passage.
Melinda essayed a weak shrug and the little man sighed with relief.
Perceiving me immovable, she essayed another method of showing her disrelish for her occupation.
Yet he essayed, and haltingly at first, to express what he felt and analyzed when playing the Game at the supreme summit of existence.
But he proved a very incapable chief when he essayed the part of Catiline.
Apelike, they essayed to don the apparel themselves, but their ingenuity was not sufficient to the task and so they gave it up.
Daedalus essayed the empty air with wings not permitted to man.
Wolfson faced about again and essayed to tackle his schnitzel.
Several times I essayed the right-hand entrance only to turn back as though warned by some strange intuitive sense that this was not the way.
The chair was placed, and Miss Lucindy essayed to climb, but vainly.
He did it gradually, systematically, little by little, a step at a time, and each step made sure before the next was essayed.
Meanwhile Stonor essayed to unclasp the chain around her neck.
Of all the tangled webs ever I essayed to unravel, this is the knottiest.
Between a grand piano and a centre-table piled high with books was space for a half a dozen to walk abreast, yet he essayed it with trepidation.
Also, there was an awkward hesitancy, at times, as he essayed the new words he had learned.
For half an hour they pranced and yelled their courage to the sticking-point, and again essayed a charge.
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Notwithstanding our danger I could not help but laugh at Perry's frantic capers as he essayed to gain the safety of the lower branches of the trees he now had reached.
Therewithall Sir Ector essayed to pull out the sword and failed.
Very little ramming was essayed after the first tragic downfall of rammer and rammed, and what ever attempts at boarding were made were invisible to Bert.
