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Beauvais made a desperate attempt to clutch the blade in his hands.
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His widow told the court of her desperate attempt to help him.
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He stole it in a desperate attempt to stay an incurable disease.
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To prevent them succeeding in their desperate attempt was our first object.
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In a desperate attempt, he made a push to approach Vin herself.
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The mate made one desperate attempt to get out of his way.
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While he did this, Hans was making a desperate attempt to think.
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And so she made a desperate attempt, that afternoon, to tempt Elizabeth.
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She made a desperate attempt to rearrange her expression into something polite.
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A last desperate attempt to break off the chase, and it worked.
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The film's pervasive broad humor reeks of a desperate attempt at quirk.
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In a desperate attempt to clinch, the German exposed his jaw.
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He was an outcast, engaged in a desperate attempt to repair his fortune.
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Tracey continued with one last desperate attempt to change his mind.
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Project Nemesis had been a desperate attempt to keep us alive.
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This desperate attempt of the victim, far from exasperating Thénardier, had calmed him.
