"You're certainly not a striver," Evelyn agreed.
"The Coast of Adventure"
Harold Bindloss
Strike him a horn-pipe squeakers, take thy striver, and pace her till she stew.
"The Scornful Lady"
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Two of the officers spoke English fluently, and the third was a dogged striver who had mastered a great deal of our language before the end of the war.
"A Prisoner in Turkey"
John Still