Strove

Saturday he strove from the outset to impose his superiority. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some shook with superstitious dread; others, driven to atheistical despair, with horrible execrations, again strove to force a passage through the doors. ❋ Unknown (1875)

While Edwin strove to guess who could be the inventor of so dire a falsehood against the truest of Scots, he awakened an alarm in Wallace for Bruce, which could not be excited for himself, by suggesting that perhaps some intimation had been given to the most ambitious of the abthanes, respecting the arrival of their rightful prince. ❋ Unknown (1875)

WHEN the first violence of this paroxysm of sorrow abated, Camilla again strove to pray, and found that nothing so much stilled her. ❋ Unknown (1796)

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. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The Knights of the Sword strove for independence and tried to establish themselves in Esthonia. ❋ Unknown (1907)

The mate made no attempt to conceal his opinion of his superior's peril, and in gloomy terms strove to put the full horror of his position before him. ❋ Unknown (1903)

Now wrestlers in the Olympian games were naked, and anointed with oil to make them sleek and glibbery, so to afford no holdfast to such as strove with them. ❋ 1608-1661 (1863)

The desire and the hope of recovering the work of Celsus were therefore quite natural for any who wished to penetrate more deeply into the spiritual atmosphere of the second and third centuries, and especially for such as strove to understand clearly how men of this age, versed in philosophy, such as ❋ Unknown (1861)

Add to this the wailings of terrified women, the infirm condition of the aged, and the helplessness of childhood; such as strove to provide for themselves and those who labored to assist others; these dragging the feeble, those waiting for them; some hurrying, others lingering; altogether created a scene of universal confusion and embarrassment: and while they looked back upon the danger in their rear, they often found themselves beset before and on their sides; or, if they had escaped into the quarters adjoining, these, too, were already seized by the devouring flames; even the parts which they believed remote and exempt were found to be in the same distress. ❋ Rossiter Johnson (1906)

He was friendly with Dissenters and, while hostile to Catholic doctrine, strove to provide a level playing field for its adherents. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Jobs strove to create exactly the computer or device that he wanted for himself and that desire informed almost everything he did. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Before that time the word referred to the 18th century rationalist movement in Europe that strove to understand the world using logic and reason. ❋ Lewis Richmond (2011)

The executive, who served as Google's CEO from 2001 until earlier this year, strove to draw a sharp contrast between his company and Microsoft Corp., the last technology giant that faced such intense scrutiny from antitrust enforcers. ❋ Thomas Catan (2011)

Consisting of both civilians and former as well as active military members, the Treishya had during its brief existence moved with deliberate patience, remaining in the shadows and largely beneath the notice of government and law enforcement as it strove to fill its ranks. ❋ Dayton Ward (2011)

The New York Times reports that on Monday, in a speech at the University of Delhi, Secretary of State Clinton strove to enter a new age of deeper and friendlier relations with India, while the Obama administration signed a technical agreement that will open military sales by the United States to India. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Poland also strove — like alot of countries — to take advantage of the collapse of empires after WWI to gain more territory. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Finally, Yushenko has descended into chauvinist nationalism of the worst sort; he actively strove to rehabilitate some of the most monstrous parts of Ukrainian history, including the deep complicity in the Holocaust. ❋ Unknown (2010)