Lewis and Clark unsuccessfully attempted to negotiate a peace treaty between the Mandans and the Arikara. |
The first great fleet in Spanish history was the famous armada of 1588, sent unsuccessfully to defeat England. |
The book opens with Blanche White in jail for unsuccessfully kiting checks to buy groceries with. |
Some sought to contradict him, while others tried, unsuccessfully, to ignore his prying. |
In that precious time they tried unsuccessfully to launch the boat's inflatable life raft. |
He was graduated with honors from Oxford, ran unsuccessfully for Parliament in 1964, then began writing teleplays. |