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Definition of Attempting
1. attempt [v] - See also: attempt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Attempting
Literary usage of Attempting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"The evidence in the case also establishes, we think, with equal clearness, the
fact that the ship was attempting to break the blockade when captured. ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The effect was to throw the entire Greek world into a turmoil, with the various
Greek aspirants or monarchs attempting to make capital out of the situation. ..."
3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1796)
"... to my attempting the Hiad-\. I cannot deny " acquainted with Lord Halifax to
know his way yet; that I need " not puzzle ..."
4. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"His conscience was not quite easy in this desire for delay, any more than it was
quite easy in his not attempting to learn the truth about his own mother ..."
5. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1901)
"When attempting to enumerate the multitude of advantages offered by this section
we become lost and are forced to the conclusion that nature has located a ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"The Court of King's Bench formerly would not hear Defendant to reduce the amount
of bail: but this Court always heard Defendant attempting< to get rid of ..."
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