attempts

Among the very earliest of these attempts of which we have detailed information is the device of Wilars de Honecort.

The enterprise met with the usual fate of all the attempts formed in favour of the Stuarts.

After a time, for fear of attempts at escape, these prisoners were chained together two and two.

The attempts to produce tar and pitch failed, and the colonists demanded that they be moved to the Schoharie.

Attempts have been made to improve the quality by the introduction of Riga flax seed, but so far without success.

Again, it is more than likely that the reader is clever, very clever, and that any attempts at concealment would be merely futile.

Three attempts were necessary before I could trust myself on the narrow strip of shelf.

Of attempts, however, to combine general and intellectual education with practical training and handicrafts we have few examples.

The period of the first attempts at conversion was not well chosen.

He opposed all attempts to reform the law which punished with death a106 theft of five shillings.