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His last two albums have essayed a music of extraordinary intimacy and strangeness, schooled in the last century's avant gardes but with baritone phantoms of the familiar Scott still in attendance.

From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2012

Perhaps it is only through the rainbow lenses of poesy that we can view this wondrous region aright, so I have essayed a description of the isle in verse.

From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis

The authors have essayed to write a book from a different point of view.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene

Painters have essayed with their most gorgeous colours, but have fallen far short of the intense beauty, transparency, and purity of the water, and the wonderful radiance and brilliancy of the “Rainbow in the Mist.”

From The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years by Werge, John

Great poets like Schiller have essayed the same theme, and mighty musicians like Beethoven have striven to give it musical form.

From Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes by Odum, Howard W.