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The third kick of the mule The first, which both are essaying, would be to placate the diehards and win their support for a clean continuing resolution.

From Economist • Sep. 24, 2015

It was not until two years later that Addison was born, and that Marquette and Joliet sailed down the Mississippi, even as we now are essaying the Athabasca.

From The New North by Cameron, Agnes Deans

This is a very difficult kind of verse that you are essaying, you whom the laurels of Mr. Locker do not suffer to sleep for envy. 

From Letters on Literature by Lang, Andrew