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Sentences starting with effort

Effort eventually ceases for the old and approved, and is concentrated on experiments. [4]

Sentences ending with effort

And how glad you should be that you are able to make true friends, without an effort. [11]
He achieved popularity without effort. [11]
She was glaring with a frown at her sister, and detached her eyes from her with an effort. [8]
I hope he will put all possible energy and speed into the effort. [7]
But if experience went for anything, we should all come to a standstill; for there is nothing so discouraging to effort. [4]
A book which we could master and possess in an evening we can have read to us in a month in the club, without the least intellectual effort. [4]
He pulled himself up with a last effort. [11]
His white head twitched with the effort. [2]
He pulled himself together with a supreme effort. [9]
One would have to travel far before he would find another town of twelve thousand inhabitants that could represent itself so respectably, in the matter of clothes, on a freight-pier, without premeditation or effort. [5]

Short sentences using effort

But the effort was vain. [10]
John Brown's effort was peculiar. [7]
The effort was useless. [9]
With an effort she continued. [11]
But the effort failed. [4]
I made an effort. [11]
Presently he made an effort. [11]
A useless effort! [10]

Sentences containing effort two or more times

Were there not vast fields of human effort, effort such as his, where he could ease the sorrow of living by the joy of a divine altruism? [11]
I know that Douglas has recently made a little effort, not seeming to notice that he had a different theory, has made an effort to get rid of that. [7]
He made a desperate effort, and rose so as to sit up in the bed for an instant, but the effort was too much for him, and he sank back upon his pillow, helpless. [6]
Sometimes he made an effort to take something, but it was evident that he made the effort to please us. [4]
In spite of a tremulous effort to govern herself and see the situation as it really was--an effort of one who desired her good to bring her and Rudyard together, the ruse itself became magnified to monstrous proportions, and her spirit suddenly revolted. [11]

More example sentences with the word effort in them

That each of you will, in his sphere, do all he can to have the officers, soldiers, and seamen of the army and navy, while engaged in the effort to suppress the rebellion, paid, fed, clad, and otherwise well provided for and supported. [7]
When, after long years of effort, he succeeded in getting the rate established, he at once bent his energies in the direction of cheap cable service and a letter from him came one day to Stormfield concerning his new plans. [5]
Now, if they would make the effort in good temper, could they not with nearly equal unanimity frame and pass a law by means of which to keep good that unanimous oath? [7]
Seeing that it would be a mistake to arrest Marchand at that moment, he raised the struggling figure of the wrecker above his head and, with Herculean effort, threw him up over the heads of the Frenchmen in front of him. [11]
All at once, with the effort, blood spurted from his mouth into the other's face. [11]
To go now, with something accomplished, and turn my back forever on the world, with one last effort to do the impossible thing for some great cause, and fail and be lost forever--do you not understand? [11]
He was breathing with great difficulty; his face was almost convulsed with the effort, but she recognized him in a moment; it was Murray Bradshaw,--Captain Bradshaw, as she knew by the bars on his coat flung upon the bed where he had just been laid. [6]
They will remember with gratitude every earnest effort, every encouraging word, which has helped them in their difficult and laborious career of study. [3]
Presently, as if with an effort, he rose to his feet, took the red fez from his head, and fanned himself with it for a moment. [11]
Jo roused himself with an effort, and opened to the knocking. [11]
He read it with an air of singular effort, and yet with a certain tenderness. [6]
Philip shuddered, and with a supreme effort bent to the table again, and wrote on. [11]
Then, as if with a great effort, and after the manner of one who has learned a part, he went on: "As the French ran away mad, paw of one on tail of other, they found him trying to drag himself along. [11]
I think there will be the most extraordinary effort ever made to carry New York for Douglas. [7]
It was she who checked herself at last by an effort that was almost hysterical. [9]
Her first exploit, which cost her immense effort and established her authority, was the packing of the carpets. [2]
But the story which called out the most persistent and determined and ambitious effort was one which had no ending, and so there was nothing to compare the new-made endings with. [5]
Any such effort, when a person is so enfeebled, may stop the heart in a moment; and if it stops, it will never move again. [6]
It was as when a bell is rung in a vacuum,--no words came from them,--only a faint gasping sound, an effort at speech. [6]
Once her Cause were perceived, once her whole energy were directed towards its fulfilment, the prophets would arise, out of the East and out of the West, to stir mankind to higher effort, to denounce fearlessly the shortcomings and evils of the age. [9]
The Magi, however, were not deceived; they shut themselves up in their palace, assembled an army in the Nisaean plain, promised the soldiers high pay, and used every effort to strengthen the belief of the people in Gaumata's disguise. [10]
Then it is well with her, for death is not punishment; it is the end and aim of life,--the only end that we can attain without effort, but through sufferings!--the gods alone know how great. [10]
Her father, the wealthy Krates, made every effort to keep her from entering the service of the Queen, but in vain. [10]
When we think we have done something for others, by some great effort, we find it's all for our own vanity. [8]
Bronzed as he was, his face showed no paleness; but, as he drew near her, it grew pinched and wan from the effort at self-control. [11]
Ruthless as he was, he realized the time had come when by bold effort he might get young Calhoun wholly into his power. [11]
Philip's first effort was to get Harry out of the Tombs. [5]
His first effort was to get an upper clerkship in one of the departments, where his Oxford education could come into play and do him service. [5]
Here at last was something to touch a fibre of my brain, but a pain came with the effort of memory. [9]
And now he was determined, if it cost him the effort of all his remaining days, to close another discussion and put forever to rest the anxious doubts about the larva of meloe. [6]
A great effort was demanded to summon up the now almost unimaginable experience of his confidence; of the evening when, almost on that very spot, he had revealed to Hodder the one weakness of his life. [9]
But Miss Lucretia was content to wait, and guessed at many things which Cynthia did not tell her, and made some personal effort, unknown to Cynthia, to find out other things. [9]
And--" The effort was beyond me, and I glanced appealingly at Dolly. [9]
But the effort was beyond him, and the flood within him broke loose. [9]
While the count was being turned over, one of his arms fell back helplessly and he made a fruitless effort to pull it forward. [2]
My first effort was about twenty-five years ago. [5]
No, his effort was a stream of fire, that kindled his soul into a flame of admiration, and carried his senses away captive. [5]
His return smile was a great effort, however. [11]
Before the approaching wagon came alongside, she knew from the grey and the darkbrown horses who was driving them, and she made a strong effort for composure. [11]
Matronly dignity was visible in every movement, and the charm of her manner lay, not in a youthful endeavor to be pleasing, but in the effort of age to please others, considering their wishes, and at the same time demanding consideration in return. [10]
It was the vierkleur of the pioneer, without which the long train of capewagons, with the oxen in longer coils of effort, would never have advanced; without which the Kaffir and the Hottentot would have sacrificed every act of civilization. [11]
The stock became very valuable, and every effort was made to find this man, but he had disappeared. [5]
She has a very sweet voice; rather hesitates in choosing her expressions, but when chosen they seem without an effort admirable, and just befitting the occasion; there is nothing overstrained, but perfectly simple. [14]
Reason made a valiant but hopeless effort to assert itself. [9]
The same effort used to introduce a novelty will be much better remunerated by pushing the sale of an acknowledged good piece of literature. [4]
She sank back upon the couch again as though the effort to achieve my courtesy had unnerved her, and she murmured simply and painfully: "Thank you very much: I have travelled far. [11]
It is looked upon as merely an effort to pamper one or two pets, and to persecute and degrade their supposed rivals. [7]
She drew herself up, almost with an effort, as though she had been lost in thought, and looked at me curiously for a moment. [11]
We gave them up without an effort at recovering them, and cursed the lying books that said horses would stay by their masters for protection and companionship in a distressful time like ours. [5]
He caught her up in his arms, bore her to the house, laid her on a sofa, and, having spent his strength in this last effort, reeled and fell, and lay as one over whom have just been whispered the words, "He is gone. [6]
There are conditions under which an effort to break it may have some chance--that is, some small, some trifling chance--of success. [5]
This was in truth a painful effort, for the sand crumbled away again and again under his feet, slipping down hill and carrying him with it, thus compelling him to find a new hold with hand and foot. [10]
He became a trembling old man, at times so peevish that we were obliged to summon with an effort what he had been. [9]
And yet her tongue seemed tied, and it was only by the utmost effort of her will that she could bring herself to express her astonishment at his rapid return to health. [10]
He gathered himself together, and then with teeth, hands, and body rigid with enormous effort, he pulled and pulled. [11]
Pressing his lips together he made that effort for the twenty-thousandth time and lay down. [2]
Though scarcely able to speak, he tenderly called her name, but she made no reply; like Iras and Charmian, she was exerting her whole strength at the windlass in the most passionate effort to raise him. [10]
Bob had managed to shift the subject from Jethro, not without an effort, though he had done it in that merry, careless manner which was so characteristic of him. [9]
When he tried to rouse him and spur him to greater energy his favorite would look at him beseechingly, and though he made every effort to be of use to him and to show him a cheerful countenance it was always with but brief success. [10]
Leostaf without him, to proceed up the river stealthily with the rest of the fleet to Cap Rouge, from whence the last great effort of the heroic Wolfe to effect a landing was to be made. [11]
My father, unable to overcome his fatal shyness by any effort of will, had not the courage to withstand this unfairness until he was called home by his mother for his twenty-fifth birthday, and made use of the elixir. [10]
His effort is to make the impression that his enemies first made the charge of toryism and he drove them from that, then Sampson's ghost, he drove them from that, then finally the assignment charge was manufactured just before election. [7]
I'm too tired to make the effort. [4]
However, they resolved to make one more effort, put in one more day's work. [5]
I was going to make one last effort for his sake. [11]
Billy, however, determined to make an effort to find the banking-place of the money, and refused to turn back without a trial. [11]
But something antagonistic to his own dejection, to the Muslim's fatalism, emerged from David's own altruism, to nerve him to hope and effort still. [11]
She will try to blush, and it will be only polite in you to take the effort for the deed. [5]
The notion appears to be spreading that there must be some way by which one can get a good intellectual outfit without much personal effort. [4]
When they were tired of lugging him, they lifted him, with much effort and difficulty, to the top of a high wall, and left him there amid the broken bottles, utterly unable to get down. [4]
When, after some time, he heard his wife's voice in the dining-room, he controlled himself by a violent effort, went to the door, and slowly opened it. [10]
Mrs. Pratt had time, although she did not hear the cry for help, but woke up some moments later, to run to that room--and there she found these men standing and making no effort to escape. [5]
Both forces had thought that nothing could live in that gray-brown veld, and no effort at first was made to rescue or take it. [11]
It appeared as though the dumb earth were trying to speak, and the mighty effort gave it pain, from which came awe and terror to living things. [11]
It seemed as though she were making every effort consistent with her integrity and self-respect to please me. [9]
Yet to maintain this rank he neither cared nor needed to make any effort. [6]
But even in this physical stupefaction he made an effort to reassert himself, to draw himself back from the coming unconsciousness. [11]
It was during this last effort of Sigismund to regain his position that the Earl of Meldritch, accompanied by Smith, went to Transylvania, with the intention of assisting Georgio Busca, who was the commander of the Emperor's party. [4]
I learned all this from Bai's wife; for she, too, repents what she did to injure you; her husband used every effort to save you. [10]
Then we have this fine picture--flung upon the canvas with hardly an effort, as you will notice. [5]
I persuaded myself this evening that I could fetch him around without any great amount of effort, but I've been getting more and more heavyhearted and doubtful straight along, ever since. [5]
Being satisfied with this effort I looked around for other worlds to conquer, and it struck me that it would make good, interesting matter to charge the editor of a neighboring country paper with a piece of gratuitous rascality and "see him squirm. [5]
Now, there being this broad difference between us, I do not pretend, in addressing myself to you Kentuckians, to attempt proselyting you; that would be a vain effort. [7]
Now, what I think is, that you should provide to retain your hold where you are, certainly, and bring the rest with you personally, and make a vigorous effort to destroy the enemy's forces in this vicinity. [7]
I hope you think I was justified in making the effort I did, not without a considerable strain upon my feelings, as well as her own, to get hold of the papers? [6]
He says: "Both these views are equally well founded, for only the united effort of the two forces could insure a possibility of victory. [10]
The first of these things required tremendous effort, the last one, concerning Bess, seemed simply and naturally easy of accomplishment. [13]
In times like these the faith is the man; and they to whom it is given in larger measure owe a special duty to those who for want of it are faint at heart, uncertain in speech, feeble in effort, and purposeless in aim. [6]
His pulse quickened, then his body stiffened with the effort at self-control. [11]
Clemens now and then found it necessary to pay a visit to Canada in the effort to protect his copyright. [5]
It was with the utmost effort that she uttered all her heart prompted her to tell; she had nothing to look for from me but mockery, warning, and reproach, and yet she opened her heart to me. [10]
No matter what the subject might be, a brain-racking effort was made to squirm it into some aspect or other that the moral and religious mind could contemplate with edification. [5]
The standard of the Poems and of the plague-spot-and-bacilli effort is exactly the same. [5]
His footsteps across the Place du Vier Prison had been unsteady, his head bowed, though more than once he raised it with a sort of effort, as it were in indignation or defiance. [11]
The moon heard the nurse tell what a pleasant, quiet man Herr Casper had been, and how, away from his own business affairs and those of the Council, his sole effort had seemed to be to interfere with no one. [10]
Why, then, in the name of that happiness, of the peace and sanity and pleasurable effort it had brought him, had he allowed and even encouraged the advent of a new element that threatened to destroy the equilibrium achieved? [9]
At two in the morning they routed us out of bed--another piece of unwarranted cruelty--another stupid effort of our dragoman to get ahead of a rival. [5]
The effect of the look was that of a visual effort to harmonize the man with the deed he had done, the stir he had created in the city and the diocese; to readjust impressions. [9]
Pierre refused without the least difficulty or effort, and was afterwards surprised how simple and easy had been what used to appear so insurmountably difficult. [2]
The substance of the Judge's speech on Kansas is an effort to put the free-State men in the wrong for not voting at the election of delegates to the constitutional convention. [7]

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