essay
/ɛˈseɪ/ verb C2- To attempt or try. · Shall we essay a walk on the promenade?
- To move forth, as into battle.
He/she/it essays · Past essayed · Past participle essayed · -ing form essaying
Verb forms
- Base form
- essay
- He/she/it
- essays
- Past
- essayed
- Past participle
- essayed
- -ing form
- essaying
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Matthew and Marilla were there, with eyes and ears for only one student on the platform--a tall girl in pale green, with faintly flushed cheeks and starry eyes, who read the best essay and was pointed out and whispered about as the Avery winner.
“Reckon you’re glad we kept her, Marilla?” whispered Matthew, speaking for the first time since he had entered the hall, when Anne had finished her essay.
His name, or rather a plaintive voice which essayed to pronounce his name, reached him.
As for Albert and Franz, they essayed not to escape from their ciceronian tyrants; and, indeed, it would have been so much the more difficult to break their bondage, as the guides alone are permitted to visit these monuments with torches in their hands.
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