I'll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family, and we will discuss your affairs this very afternoon.

Taking hold of this respectable person's arm as if to support her, Lady Ashton traversed the court, uttering a word or two by way of direction to the servants, but not one to Sir William, who in vain endeavoured to attract her attention.

Chloe endeavoured to prevent him, but he paid no heed to her, and finding herself disregarded, she ran off pettishly to her sheep, whilst Daphnis, climbing the tree, reached the apple and plucked it.

Poor Alice was so frightened that she shrunk away from him, but he caught her by the wrist and endeavoured to draw her towards the door. I screamed, and at that moment my son Arthur came into the room.

After Holmes' departure for the concert, I lay down upon the sofa and endeavoured to get a couple of hours' sleep.

For an hour he droned away upon his violin, endeavouring to soothe his own ruffled spirits.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called "guessing what was at the other side of the hill."

Each endeavouring, all achieving.

The reader may set me down as a hopeless busybody, when I confess how much this man stimulated my curiosity, and how often I endeavoured to break through the reticence which he showed on all that concerned himself.

But if a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out.