"Attempt" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the woman; "I see you understand. Well, now, do you know what I would do if you should tell anybody where you came from, or attempt to run away? ...
— Timothy Crump's Ward - A Story of American Life • Horatio Alger
... not begin until 1847, when as a Whig he not only opposed any further extension of slavery but strove to commit his party to the policy of emancipation in all the States. Failing in this attempt, Sumner became an active Free-Boiler in 1848. He was twice a candidate for Congress on the Free-soil ticket but failed of election. In 1851 he was elected to the United States Senate by a coalition between his ...
— The Anti-Slavery Crusade - Volume 28 In The Chronicles Of America Series • Jesse Macy
... ever attempt to shave anybody, I wonder? According to one of the sketches he sent me from Duesseldorf he did, and was so engaged on a blind man Kennedy, when a Captain Marius comes on the scene and says, in discreet whisper and with much concern, "I say, governor, mind you don't gash his throat as you ...
— In Bohemia with Du Maurier - The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences • Felix Moscheles
... this bidding, rose up so far that Owasso would have imperiled his neck by any attempt to get ...
— The Indian Fairy Book - From the Original Legends • Cornelius Mathews
... of things stood quite unchanged. The semi-circular arch, the short, stout pillar, occasionally (but rarely) the dome: these were everywhere the mark of architecture. There was no change nor any attempt at change. The arts were saved but not increased, and the whole of the work that men did with their hands stood fast in mere tradition. No new town arises. If one is mentioned (Oxford, for instance) for the first time in the Dark Ages, whether ...
— Europe and the Faith - "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" • Hilaire Belloc
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