trying

He was trying, I think, to demonstrate balance and equivalence.

Why should it break its pretty painted wings in trying to soar above the sunshine of the hour?

I was trying to remember whether or not I'd put moth-balls in your winter suit.'

The alcalde was trying to change the course of the conversation.

Then he threshed his legs, where two of the creatures clung, trying to drag him down again.

She was trying to remember all she knew of the courts of the island—where they were held, and on what days.