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about making vain endeavours to subsist

He fled to Shawl; and there, in the depth of winter and on the verge of starvation, wandered about, making vain endeavours to subsist himself and a few followers by the sale of the royal jewels.
— from History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 1 (of 3) Third Edition by Kaye, John William, Sir

and making vain efforts to subdue

Presently, at his bidding, the merry group of children came filing down, breathing hard and fast, and making vain efforts to subdue their high spirits.
— from Deficient Saints: A Tale of Maine by Marshall Saunders

and made vain efforts their strength

Their riders struggled, and made vain efforts; their strength gave way, and they, at last, resigned themselves to their fate.
— from History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de

and making vigorous efforts to secure

In our previous discussion of the progress of the war upon Lake Ontario, we left Commodore Chauncey in winter quarter at Sackett's Harbor, building new ships, and making vigorous efforts to secure sailors to man them.
— from The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

a magnificent view exclaimed the student

"What a magnificent view!" exclaimed the student.
— from Grace Darling, Heroine of the Farne Islands by Marianne Farningham

all my voluntary efforts to sustain

I withdraw all profession of allegiance to it, and all my voluntary efforts to sustain it.
— from William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké

and making visible efforts to still

Though she looked very helpless, very childlike in her innocence, she had contrived to speak to him like a princess addressing a menial, holding her tiny head very high and making visible efforts to still the quivering of her lips.
— from The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

after many vain efforts they succeed

In going up the river, they swim on before, and if, after many vain efforts, they succeed in fixing a rope to one of the points of rock that crown the dike, they then, by means of that rope, draw the bark to the top of the raudal.
— from Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt

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