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Definition of Strives
1. strive [v] - See also: strive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strives
Literary usage of Strives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... As from the ground he strives to start, A ruffian's dagger finds his heart I
Upwards he casts his dizzy eyes — Murmurs his master's name — and dies ! ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"It is quite likely people may turn away from a story which strives to put facts
on a philosophical basis and to make events the outcome of social or ..."
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