Meanings of rude attempts in английском

In looking at these rude attempts at commemoration, one feels the value of letters.

The year following, others, cultivated the plant and made some rude attempts at the manufacture of sugar.

The Semitic genius is too subjective, and has never gotten beyond the first rude attempts at dramatic composition.

They entertained us with dances after their fashion, and made some rude attempts at performing a sort of pantomime.

In their vaster conceptions of Chaos, Erebus, Aether, Night, and the like, the first rude attempts at generalization are dimly seen.

In ages almost fabulous there were some rude attempts in this art, which probably arose from the coloring of statues and reliefs.

We find also rude attempts at scene-shifting, of which an illustration occurs in the Coventry Play of "The Last Supper:"

After our rude attempts at smelting there is a great deal of valuable metal left in the dross, which a wiser system would extract.

The climate there, however, is warmer than at Linyanti, and the Makalaka increase the fertility of their gardens by rude attempts at artificial irrigation.