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Literary notes about Try (AI summary)

In literature, "try" serves as a versatile term that can denote anything from a simple attempt to a challenge or even an experimental venture. For instance, authors like Gibbon [1] and Jefferson [2] employ "try" to denote the undertaking of a novel experiment or the precise translation of an idea, while in works of fiction—as seen with Stoker [3] and Shakespeare [4]—it often expresses a character’s determined if sometimes reluctant effort to overcome obstacles. In more conversational or commanding tones, as in Twain [5] and Carroll [6], "try" functions as an invitation or instruction, with the nuance shifting subtly depending on context. Additionally, in reflective or introspective moments, such as those found in Huck Finn [7] or Hardy [8], "try" becomes a means by which a character contemplates personal endeavor and moral growth. Across these varied examples, the word encapsulates the fragile interplay between intention and action, transforming simple effort into a lens through which human hopes, challenges, and transformations are vividly examined.
  1. "] Note 154 ( return ) [ He was on the point of giving Plotinus a ruined city of Campania to try the experiment of realizing Plato's Republic.
    — from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  2. In each case try to discover the precise relation, and tranlate the ablative and its participle by a clause which will best express the thought.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  3. He heard the hours strike one after the other; but try how he would he could not get to sleep.
    — from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker
  4. I am given, sir, secretly to understand that your younger brother, Orlando, hath a disposition to come in disguis'd against me to try a fall.
    — from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
  5. "Try and come home somebody," said his mother to Gambetta as she sent him off to Paris to school.
    — from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
  6. Try another Subtraction sum.
    — from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
  7. “I know it, Sally, and I do try all I can.
    — from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  8. I will try to forget you.
    — from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

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