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  • noun Obsolete spelling of trial.

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Examples

  • “I lay this down as a tryal for both,” he had told the Frenchman, “to see which will have the greatest regard to it, & that side we will stand by.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • “I lay this down as a tryal for both,” he had told the Frenchman, “to see which will have the greatest regard to it, & that side we will stand by.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • “I lay this down as a tryal for both,” he had told the Frenchman, “to see which will have the greatest regard to it, & that side we will stand by.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • “I lay this down as a tryal for both,” he had told the Frenchman, “to see which will have the greatest regard to it, & that side we will stand by.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • “If a Governor can set aside patents without a tryal at Law,” another contemporary warned, “a Governor can set make himself master of any mans Landed Estate,” and “if the practice be once Established the whole people will in consequence soon become tenants at will and slaves to Governors.”

    Law and Politics in Newcastle's New York Dan Ernst 2009

  • An I must pointz owt wit my assorted pointee enz that I onlee hadz a bit part – ob de faynting spek-tater in de famus “tryal ub de centuree” dat lcb is referrin to.

    invisible volleyball serve - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • This I take to be a very good way, to use so many ledger baits as you intend to make tryal of.

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • For which reason those worthy personages, whose noble office it is to save the lives of their fellow-creatures at the Old Bailey, take the utmost care, by frequent previous examination, to divine every question which may be asked their clients on the day of tryal, that they may be supplyed with proper and ready answers, which the most fertile invention cannot supply in an instant.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • ‘Whether my suspicions of your nose were justly excited or not — ’tis not now to inquire — it is enough I have not had firmness to put them to farther tryal.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • ‘Whether my suspicions of your nose were justly excited or not — ’tis not now to inquire — it is enough I have not had firmness to put them to farther tryal.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

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