Meanings of present attempt in English

Now he made up his mind that nothing should balk him in the present attempt.

I think, if you are wise, you will not for the present attempt to see her.

As for your present attempt upon my chastity, I despise your power, as I detest your intention.

At the same time; I do not advise to any present attempt at redress by acts of legislation.

The present attempt fared no better.

I have made the present attempt to win you by stratagem, in the not very sanguine hope of success.

She was doubtless imprudent, but not sinful; and the present attempt to disgrace her I regard as a cruel wrong.

Young Prince Luigi, who will make this present attempt, is most anxious to reach the top of Mount St. Elias.

My present attempt turned out one of my failures, though I cannot think that it would have been better left unmade.

To gather these up and weave them into an impartial and truthful narrative has been the simple purpose of my present attempt.

He had paid the cost of the last attempt, and might, in a great degree, carry on this present attempt on credit.

This maxim, my lords, is, in my opinion, strictly regarded in the present attempt, which in itself is an affair of very great perplexity.

The present attempt includes some at least of the books and articles commonly left unnoticed, which are chiefly of a critical or scholarly character.

There is a curious parallelism in the essentials of that conflict with the present attempt to elevate King Cotton to the throne of this Republic.

No better evidence of this need be sought than in the nature of the present attempts to reinstate it.

'I have had such luck in my present attempt as should scarcely raise my courage.'