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- verb Obsolete spelling of
endeavour .
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Examples
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Acchievements, hoping their courtesy will accepte our poore indevour, and their wisedome wilbe [460] ready to supporte the weaknes of this little flocke.
Colonial Records of Virginia Various
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Now there is Doctor _Needhams_ wife, who by her own experimenting, hath knowledge of several other things: But upon such an occasion as this, there is nothing better then that the child must be glister'd; and for the lumps you must indevour through a continual chafing to get them out of the young womans breasts.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
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Running. the Confution in the Retreat is beyound description the Men throughing away their arms not withstanding all the indevour of the few
The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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Thus you may see what difficulties still crossed any good indevour; and the good successe of the businesse being thus oft brought to the very period of destruction; yet you see by what strange means God hath still delivered it.
Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733 Various 1885
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The hunters returned late in the evening unsuccessfull. we have not now more than one day's provision on hand. we directed Drewyer and the Feildses to set out tomorrow morning early, and indevour to provide us some provision on the bay beyond point
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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Mandans & Recares of the Missouri had promised us to desist from making war on them & that we would indevour to find the means of making the
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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Thus you may see what difficulties still crossed any good indevour: and the good successe of the businesse being thus oft brought to the very period of destruction; yet you see by what strange means God hath still delivered it.
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Friday March 21st 1806 as we could not Set out we thought it best to Send out Some hunters and accordingly dispatched Shields and Collins on this Side of the Netul for that purpose with orders to return in the evening or Sooner if they were Successfull. they returned late in the evening unsuccessfull. we have not now more than two days provisions on hand. we derected Drewyer and the two Fieldses to Set out tomorrow morning early, and indevour to provide us Some provision on the Bay beyond point William. we were visited to day by Some Clatsops who left us in the evening. our sick men willard and Bratten do not Seem to recover; the former was taken with a violent pain in his leg and thye last night.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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Connecticut in 1704 after referring to her frontier towns and garrisons ordered that "said company of English and Indians shall, from time to time at the discretion of their chief co [= m] ander, range the woods to indevour the discovery of an approaching enemy, and in especiall manner from Westfield to Ousatunnuck. [
The Frontier in American History Frederick Jackson Turner 1896
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