Strove
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63 examples of Strove in a sentence
I
strove
to watch the end because I hope something at least would at last happen !
We rooted for Caleb as he
strove
to resist the overtures of Sheriff Lucas.
True to his word, he
strove
to make each successive picture more stupendous than the last.
But German politicians
strove
to find a solution that accommodated the concerns of the Jewish and Muslim minorities.
Of course, no one is under the illusion that India or any other country will abandon its cities for a life as simple as the one Gandhi
strove
to live; but that doesn’t mean that India can’t look to Gandhi’s core values for inspiration.
Its driving ideological force was a European-inspired secular nationalism, which
strove
for political and social modernization through top-down government action.
Tunisia has a small military (only about 36,000 soldiers), and, since independence in 1956, it had been led by two party-based non-democratic leaders who
strove
to keep the military out of politics.
At first, people did not think of civil rights as they
strove
for such previously unknown comforts.
In the Soviet Union, for example, it was hardliners after World War II who
strove
to export Marxist-Leninist revolution, condemning the world to decades of cold war.
For centuries, British foreign policy
strove
to avoid permanent European entanglements; but, most importantly, it aimed to prevent a single continental power from achieving dominance – especially if that power happened to be France.
Obama
strove
to represent not “red” or “blue” America, but “purple” America.
It
strove
to improve its legal system so that decisions would accord with general rules and foster confidence that contracts would be enforced--whether or not a bribe had been paid.
The US founders, like the economic and intellectual elites in Britain at the time,
strove
to develop laws and institutions that would support a strong, capable state under the control of like-minded rulers.
This splendid vision dwelt in her memory as the most beautiful thing that it was possible to dream, so that now she
strove
to recall her sensation.
He even
strove
not to love her; then, when he heard the creaking of her boots, he turned coward, like drunkards at the sight of strong drinks.
"I
strove
nobly for my liberty; but the perverse spirit of rebellion has even lighted on their horses.
Nature provided him with the second, and, to say the truth, he
strove
manfully himself to keep up the other two requisites in his creed.
Of course, the gentlemen
strove
to make the irksome moments fly as swiftly as possible; but premeditated happiness is certainly of the least joyous kind.
Frances eagerly
strove
to read the expression of his averted face, and resisted all his efforts to retire.
He
strove
to pacify me all he could, but began at last to be very pressing upon me to tell what it was.
We had many family quarrels about it, and they began in time to grow up to a dangerous height; for as I was quite estranged form my husband (as he was called) in affection, so I took no heed to my words, but sometimes gave him language that was provoking; and, in short,
strove
all I could to bring him to a parting with me, which was what above all things in the world I desired most.
I was a mere bride all this while, and my new spouse
strove
to make me entirely easy in everything.
I could neither sleep nor converse, so that my husband perceived it, and wondered what ailed me,
strove
to divert me, but it was all to no purpose.
Therese, understanding what he desired,
strove
to answer his questions.
Four days were spent in thinking what name to give him, because (as he said to himself) it was not right that a horse belonging to a knight so famous, and one with such merits of his own, should be without some distinctive name, and he
strove
to adapt it so as to indicate what he had been before belonging to a knight-errant, and what he then was; for it was only reasonable that, his master taking a new character, he should take a new name, and that it should be a distinguished and full-sounding one, befitting the new order and calling he was about to follow.
The others
strove
to make peace between them, but could not, for the Biscayan declared in his disjointed phrase that if they did not let him finish his battle he would kill his mistress and everyone that
strove
to prevent him.
Sancho was by this time plastered and had lain down, and though he
strove
to sleep the pain of his ribs would not let him, while Don Quixote with the pain of his had his eyes as wide open as a hare's.
He then felt her smock, and although it was of sackcloth it appeared to him to be of the finest and softest silk: on her wrists she wore some glass beads, but to him they had the sheen of precious Orient pearls: her hair, which in some measure resembled a horse's mane, he rated as threads of the brightest gold of Araby, whose refulgence dimmed the sun himself: her breath, which no doubt smelt of yesterday's stale salad, seemed to him to diffuse a sweet aromatic fragrance from her mouth; and, in short, he drew her portrait in his imagination with the same features and in the same style as that which he had seen in his books of the other princesses who, smitten by love, came with all the adornments that are here set down, to see the sorely wounded knight; and so great was the poor gentleman's blindness that neither touch, nor smell, nor anything else about the good lass that would have made any but a carrier vomit, were enough to undeceive him; on the contrary, he was persuaded he had the goddess of beauty in his arms, and holding her firmly in his grasp he went on to say in low, tender voice:"Would that found myself, lovely and exalted lady, in a position to repay such a favour as that which you, by the sight of your great beauty, have granted me; but fortune, which is never weary of persecuting the good, has chosen to place me upon this bed, where I lie so bruised and broken that though my inclination would gladly comply with yours it is impossible; besides, to this impossibility another yet greater is to be added, which is the faith that I have pledged to the peerless Dulcinea del Toboso, sole lady of my most secret thoughts; and were it not that this stood in the way I should not be so insensible a knight as to miss the happy opportunity which your great goodness has offered me."Maritornes was fretting and sweating at finding herself held so fast by Don Quixote, and not understanding or heeding the words he addressed to her, she
strove
without speaking to free herself.
Sancho perceiving it his master's final resolve, and how little his tears, counsels, and entreaties prevailed with him, determined to have recourse to his own ingenuity and compel him, if he could, to wait till daylight; and so, while tightening the girths of the horse, he quietly and without being felt, with his ass' halter tied both Rocinante's legs, so that when Don Quixote
strove
to go he was unable as the horse could only move by jumps.
Bound to him as I was by friendship, I
strove
by the best arguments and the most forcible examples I could think of to restrain and dissuade him from such a course; but perceiving I produced no effect I resolved to make the Duke Ricardo, his father, acquainted with the matter; but Don Fernando, being sharp-witted and shrewd, foresaw and apprehended this, perceiving that by my duty as a good servant I was bound not to keep concealed a thing so much opposed to the honour of my lord the duke; and so, to mislead and deceive me, he told me he could find no better way of effacing from his mind the beauty that so enslaved him than by absenting himself for some months, and that he wished the absence to be effected by our going, both of us, to my father's house under the pretence, which he would make to the duke, of going to see and buy some fine horses that there were in my city, which produces the best in the world.
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