The men fortified a blockhouse and got ready to fight, but meanwhile appealed to the King and again tried to arbitrate.

The crawling men tried to rise and fell again.

He tried again and once more sliced out of bounds.

He tried to ask the Lady Da how long they had had the drug, and how much longer they would have to wait before they had it again.

Alaric cashiered his ineffectual puppet emperor after eleven months and again tried to reopen negotiations with Honorius.

Ealdred unsuccessfully tried to drive off the raiders, but was again routed by the Welsh.

Hume was disappointed with the reception of the Treatise, which " fell stillborn from the press ," as he put it, and so tried again to disseminate his more developed ideas to the public by writing a shorter and more polemical work.

Faced with a vacancy, Disraeli and Derby tried yet again to bring Gladstone into the government.

This failed and Hippias again fled to Sardis and tried to persuade the Persians to subjugate Athens.

Finally, in 1549, Cornishmen rose once again in rebellion when the staunchly Protestant Edward VI tried to impose a new Prayer Book.

Raveneck stopped his soldiers and tried to attack again, but this charge ended with total defeat-Raveneck died and the rest of the cavalry surrendered or escaped.

This measure taken by the short-lived governmental authority would be popular and long-lasting, for since then no government in Cambodia has tried to romanize the Khmer language again.

Double jeopardy is a procedural defence that forbids a defendant from being tried again on the same ( or similar ) charges following a legitimate acquittal or conviction.

No one shall be liable to be tried or punished again in criminal proceedings under the jurisdiction of the same State for an offence for which he or she has already been finally acquitted or convicted in accordance with the law and penal procedure of that State.

The 72 signatories and 166 parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights recognise this rule, under Article 14 ( 7 ): No one shall be liable to be tried or punished again for an offence for which he has already been finally convicted or acquitted in accordance with the law and penal procedure of each country.

The world became pitch dark and the other deities tried to appease Amaterasu, so that world be bright again.

In 1183, the Young King Henry tried again to force his father to hand over some of his patrimony.

After losing a physical confrontation with Douglass, Covey never tried to beat him again.

In 1836, he tried to escape from his new owner Covey, but failed again.

Banks would play in ten of the next 12 internationals as England tried to qualify for the 1972 European Championships but lost yet again to West Germany prior to the finals stage.

James tried again to gain William's support but William responded by advising James to keep to the law and not to try to extend his prerogative powers.

An attempt to provide for the reproduction of the reverberation was tried in the 1970s through quadraphonic sound but, again, the technology at that time was insufficient for the task.

This time, the Ottoman warships concentrated their fire on the Averof, which again made use of its superior speed and tried to " cross the T " of the Ottoman fleet.

The colonists tried again in 1605 with the same result, but a third attempt in 1607 was more successful and in due course Stornoway became a Burgh of Barony.

The Greek Galen was one of the greatest surgeons of the ancient world and performed many audacious operations — including brain and eye surgeries — that were not tried again for almost two millennia.

and bright though they all were, they could not possibly compete for her interest with Papa, whose mind -- although he never tried to dazzle or patronize lesser lights with it -- naturally eclipsed theirs and made them seem to her even younger than they were.

At this point Mrs. Frances Cupply, one of Wright's handsome daughters by his first wife, came from the house and tried to calm Miriam as she tore down a no visitors sign and smashed the glass pane on another sign with a rock.

Thomas tried hard to have his cavalry ready for the test it was to meet, but his plans were wrecked when it was forced into a campaign without optimum mobility and with its commander stripped from it.

The Gortonists were charged with blasphemy and tried for their lives.

He was always concerned with life, and he tried to picture it whole ; ;

He was a learned and brilliant man, one of the best jurists in Europe and with flashes of penetrating insight, and yet in his dealings with other people, particularly when he tried to be ingratiating, he was capable of an abysmal stupidity that can have come only from a complete incomprehension of human nature and human motives.

Asked by the townsmen to cease his suit, Greville had answered that `` hytt shulde coste hym 500 first & sayed it must be tried ether before my Lorde Anderson in the countrey or his uncle Ffortescue in the exchequer with whom he colde more prevaile then we ''.

Virginia treated him with attention and tried to tempt his appetite with special food: biscuits, cookies, candies -- the result of devoted hours in the tiled kitchen.

I tried my hardest, with little help, may I say, from my husband and leading man, but somehow the outside pressures were too severe.

Alcohol ingestion succeeded in changing immobility to mobility quite strikingly in one pilot subject ( the only one with whom this technique was tried ).

Perhaps you couldn't do that but have you ever tried to see what you could do with a hunk of wood??

Mickey tried to flatten against the banister, gripped it with one hand, but Roberts' full weight struck him at that moment in the groin.

Well, a man had tried, at the King Arthur, to register with an ocelot.

He considered them with brooding eyes, brows bunched as his brain grappled with the problem and tried to find some solution.

A 24-year-old Atlanta man was arrested Sunday after breaking into the home of relatives in search of his wife, hitting his uncle with a rock and assaulting two police officers who tried to subdue him, police said.

Eight men were tried together in U.S. District Court in Anniston, Ala., on charges of interfering with interstate transportation and conspiracy growing out of a white mob's attack on a Greyhound bus carrying the first of the Freedom Riders.

As a matter of fact, this latter approach has already been tried, and with pleasing results.

For the first few months of their marriage she had tried to be nice about Gunny, going out with him to watch this pearl without price stamp imperiously around in her stall.

`` Have you ever tried to reason with an Eskimo ''??

`` I wouldn't even be surprised '', she said unhappily, `` if Myra tried to leave her with us forever ''.

Mousie Chandler had been to school with her someplace near Baltimore and tried to explain rather than defend her to the gang having lunch at Horne's.