strove

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From dull trance of grief By kind reproof awakened, Leonore Strove to redeem her scholarship from blame And be a comforter, as best she might To her remaining patroness.

From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Sigourney, Lydia Howard

The lists were set, the parted sun Shone equal on the plain, And many a knight there manfully Strove fresh applause to gain.

From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various

Through the town this good Man & his Son Strove to ride as to please everyone: Self, Son, or both tried, Then the Ass had a ride; While the world, at their efforts, poked fun.

From The Baby's Own Aesop by Crane, Walter

The table, fronting you with icy stare, Strove to look witless that its legs were bare, While the black sofa with its horse-hair pall Gloomed like a bier for Comfort's funeral.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell

Love and Hate, Which are the offspring of a common sire, Strove for the mastery, till within his eyes I saw his father's ghost glare unappeased From out Love's casements.

From The Epic of Hades In Three Books by Morris, Lewis, Sir