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Sentences starting with efforts

Efforts were made at home to procure for him the position of Secretary of Legation in London, which drew from him the remark, when they came to his knowledge, that he did not like to have his name hackneyed about among the office-seekers in Washington. [4]

Sentences ending with efforts

She chaffed the young men pleasantly and wittily, as she supposed, and as the rest also supposed, apparently, judging by the applause and laughter which she got by her efforts. [5]
He threw his whole energies into his studies with an effect which distanced all his previous efforts. [6]
In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. [2]
The tide was turning, and the candidate from Leith redoubled his efforts. [9]
But I believe that he was artist enough himself to appreciate the perfections of the first citizen's efforts. [9]
Closing sentence: "Providence seems to further our efforts. [5]
Our Scheherezade kept on writing her stories according to agreement, so many pages for so many dollars, but some of her readers began to complain that they could not always follow her quite so well as in her earlier efforts. [6]
And the press of no other country shows more occasional brilliant feats in reporting than ours: these are on occasions when the newspapers make special efforts. [4]
He introduced expressions now and then into his vocabulary which reminded one of his earlier literary efforts. [6]
Some of you must feel your scientific deficiencies painfully after your best efforts. [3]

Sentences containing efforts two or more times

It was known that there had been sacrifices, efforts at extension, efforts at compromise, but the general public fancied that the Mavick fortune had a core too solid to be washed away by any storm. [4]
He could not live, because all man's efforts, all his impulses to life, are only efforts to increase freedom. [2]

More example sentences with the word efforts in them

I've read all your little efforts and greatly admired them, and when I heard you were here, I ..." I indicated a chair, and he sat down. [5]
I might refer you to those which you yourself preached as late as last June, in a sermon which was one of the finest and most scholarly efforts I ever heard. [9]
In his tenderer years, Honora even fired George, and riots occurred which took the combined efforts of Cousin Eleanor and Mammy Lucy to quell. [9]
The last twenty-odd years' efforts to reduce the price of the lands, and to pass graduation bills and cession bills, prove the assertion to be true; and if there were no experience in support of it, the reason itself is plain. [7]
He lay there writhing with pain and quaking with apprehension, but straining every muscle in frantic efforts to get up. [5]
Still more difficult would it be to find an instance in history of the aim of an historical personage being so completely accomplished as that to which all Kutuzov's efforts were directed in 1812. [2]
My cousin, who would fain have hindered her from coming in, held her by the arm; and her efforts to shake off the old lady's grasp were all in vain till she caught sight of Herdegen. [10]
Mr. Clay, though worn down and exhausted, was appealed to by members to renew his efforts at compromise. [7]
I exhausted my wits, and very nearly my patience also, in efforts to convince both that the evils they charged on each other were inherent in the case, and could not be cured by giving either party a victory over the other. [7]
The comic efforts with which he moved his tongue made her drop her eyes and with difficulty repress the sobs that rose to her throat. [2]
Washington sprang forward, with the eager question on his lips, and the Senator said: "We may rejoice freely, now, my son--Providence has crowned our efforts with success. [5]
During her conversation with Mrs. Kame she had more than once suspected, in spite of her efforts, that the lady had read her state of mind. [9]
Now, having established with his entire party this doctrine, having been entirely successful in that branch of his efforts in your behalf, he is ready for another. [7]
The epistrategus proceeded with great caution, but his efforts also remained futile. [10]
It was a wise move, for he found Regnault de Chartres and some more of the King's pet rascals there trying their best to disperse the army, and crippling all the efforts of Joan's generals to head it for Orleans. [5]
Inform the poor widow her lad's efforts will be vain. [5]
If the spirit which imbued the founders of this nation means anything, Mr. Bass, it means that the able men who are given a chance to rise by their own efforts must still retain the duties and responsibilities of the humblest citizens. [9]
Her husband did what he could to aid her and soothe her excitement by the gratification of so ardent a wish, but his efforts were vain. [10]
Their efforts, however, were seldom so successful as to-day, when every one knew that a disturbance of the peace would be punished by exclusion from the banquet. [10]
All his efforts were made for practical effect. [7]
All their efforts were in vain, till it came to the one next the youngest. [5]
The maid had watched her career with much interest, and while Barine had been her mistress's guest her efforts to amuse and soothe her were unceasing. [10]
Her silvered hair was parted in the middle and had, in spite of palpable efforts towards tightness and repression, a perceptible ripple in it. [9]
Surrounded as he was by hills on every side, naked rocks dared the efforts of his energies. [5]
The old man was beside himself: moved the chair on which he was sitting noisily backward and forward, made efforts to control himself and not become vehement, but almost always did become vehement, scolded, and sometimes flung the exercise book away. [2]
And when he was awake, his efforts to communicate the dawning ideas of the queer world into which he had come were a never-failing delight. [4]
Her spacious house was always open, and her efforts, in charity enterprises and novel entertainments, were untiring to stimulate a circulation in the languid body of society. [4]
As Doltaire said, war was declared, but not till he had made here in Quebec last efforts to get those letters. [11]
There is the violet: all efforts of cultivation fail to make it as big as the peony, and it would be no more dear to the heart if it were quadrupled in size. [4]
Jethro thought the view from Thousand Acre Hill, especially in September, to be one of the sublimest efforts of the Creator. [9]
His senior deacon ventured to say to him that some of his people required to be reminded of the great fundamental doctrine of the worthlessness of all human efforts and motives. [6]
He came down upon us sideways, his legs all in a tangle, and his right arm, bent and twisted, going round and round, as if in vain efforts to get into his pocket, his fingers spread out in impotent desire to clutch something. [4]
We were brought up on the literature of England; our first efforts were imitations of it; we were criticised--we criticised ourselves on its standards. [4]
From that time until the 29th of December, a good deal of the Reformers' time was taken up with energetic efforts to keep Jameson from coming to their assistance. [5]
The longer the unsuccessful efforts lasted, the more evident became the superior smile on Ulrich's lips, the faster his heart throbbed. [10]
The Buffalo Express, under Mark Twain's management, had become a sort of repository for humorous efforts, often of an indifferent order. [5]
After one or two vain efforts to escape, Mrs. Gregory Thorne and Lady Lawless resigned themselves to the attentions of Mr. [11]
In less than twenty years we have seen wonderful changes in public taste and in the efforts of writers to meet it or to create it. [4]
As Ruth Leigh tramped along late this afternoon in the slush of the streets, from one house of sickness and poverty to another, a sense of her puny efforts in this great mass of suffering and injustice came over her anew. [4]
She resented the trammels of society; though she suffered from her efforts to transcend them. [9]
As I walked towards the heights, the other morning, and passed an orchard, the gardener, who saw my ineffectual efforts, with a very long cane, to reach the boughs of a tree, came down to me with a basketful he had been picking. [4]
Satan was there, too; which was proper, for it was on account of his efforts that the funerals had happened. [5]
In the seminary, too, volumes by semi-learned clergymen had been thrust into his hands, efforts which Hodder recalled now, in spite of his mental state, with a smile. [9]
Austen had undertaken to throw young Tom out of a front window, which was a large, old-fashioned one,--and after Herculean efforts had actually got him on the ledge, when something in the street caught his eye and made him desist abruptly. [9]
Man is born to struggle and to work, but in this, as in everything else, he must know how to be moderate if his efforts are to succeed. [10]
But all efforts to stop the growth of the city were vain. [4]
I came here to St. John's full of hope and confidence, gradually to lose both, gradually to realise that there was something wrong with me, that in spite of all my efforts I was unable to make any headway in the right direction. [9]
If you wish to save men from any particular vice, set up a tremendous cry of warning about some other; and they will all give their special efforts to the one to which attention is called. [4]
The physician's efforts to revive the sufferer were presently successful; again the sick man opened his eyes, and spoke more distinctly and loudly than before: "There is a perfume of musk. [10]
He ordered us to retreat, and all our efforts and losses went for nothing. [2]
If he tries to realize it his efforts are fruitless. [2]
Alixandre was suddenly to overpower the jailer, Mattingley was to make a rush for freedom, and a few bold spirits without would second his efforts and smuggle him to the sea. [11]
I should rejoice to know that such a first-rate man was going to take my place, if I did not at the same time fear that his eminent services will make my own poor efforts seem even more insignificant than they really were. [10]
For Barrow's efforts to find work for Tracy were unavailing. [5]
It was important to Dicky, in the first place, that this Mahommed Yeleb be kept quiet, by being made a confidant of his purposes so far as need be, an accomplice in his efforts whatever they should be. [11]
Our well-meant efforts to comfort them were rejected; they were angry with us for placing them in such an unpleasant position. [10]
Instead of taking to classical learning like her father, or sliding quietly into household duties like her mother, she broke out early in efforts that pointed in the direction of Art. [6]
Since she came to Canada, some nine months ago, she has lived most quietly and religiously, though many trials have been made to bring her talents into service; and the Intendant has made many efforts have her dance in the palace for his guests. [11]
It was difficult to begin the conversation anew, and when, spite of many efforts, it would not flow freely, the shout of the overseer, which reached his ear through the opening of the roof, urging the men to work, was like a deliverance. [10]
Now he began to "assist" her in making a selection; but his efforts met with no success--indeed they only annoyed her and unpleasantly interrupted her meditations. [5]
Is it not time to look the facts squarely in the face, and conform to them in our efforts for social and political amelioration? [4]
The longer he thought, tormenting himself to find some way out of it all, the more confused he became, and the more impotent his efforts at resistance. [10]
Every deed, every thought, had some influence on the way in which the fulfillment of time would come for each one; and when the hour of death was over, no regrets, repentance, or efforts could then alter the past. [10]
Chance contrives that though he directs all his efforts to prepare an expedition against England (which would inevitably have ruined him) he never carries out that intention, but unexpectedly falls upon Mack and the Austrians, who surrender without a battle. [2]
I can say this more freely, as the credit of it belongs so largely to the care and self-sacrificing efforts of Dr. Priestley and his charming wife. [6]
The efforts in this direction are ingenious, but unsatisfactory. [4]
As a rule they are pretty far-fetched, but that is not an important matter; they surprise, they compel admiration, and I notice by some of the comments which his efforts have called forth that they deceive the unwary. [5]
Richard seldom joined them, though their efforts to induce him to do so were many. [11]
But with all their efforts they could come to no explanation of what had really happened. [10]
The conductor beat the time by clapping his hands, and when the music had raised the spirits of the drinkers, they seconded his efforts by rhythmical clippings. [10]
Their efforts in the struggle for the portfolio were the only sounds audible, but it was evident that if the princess did speak, her words would not be flattering to Anna Mikhaylovna. [2]
Yet prayer was the sole atonement she could make for the wrong she had done her sister; so she did not cease her endeavours to plead for her to the Great Helper above, but her efforts were futile. [10]
The horses in the next chariot bolted as they were being driven past this mass of plunging and neighing confusion; they defied their driver's impotent efforts and galloped across the course back into the caiceres. [10]
At Accho, in the land of the Canaanites, the fleets of the Syrians, Phoenicians and Ionians belonging to Persia, and the auxiliary ships from Cyprus and Samos, won by the efforts of Phanes, were assembled. [10]
And now, in the great centres, where is accumulated most of that we value as the product of man's best efforts, is there strength enough to elevate the degraded humanity that attends our highest cultivation? [4]
More than this, the first efforts of poets and story-tellers are very commonly palimpsests: beneath the rhymes or the fiction one can almost always spell out the characters which betray the writer's self. [6]
This circumstance favored the efforts of the citizens trying to extinguish the fire, but Balbilla ascribed it to the foresight of her clever friend when the flames subsided in souse places and in others were altogether extinguished. [10]
Ten years before, the ancient temple had been consumed by fire; and at this time efforts were being made to build another, and a more beautiful one. [10]
You may suspect that there was a special inspiration for these great efforts of the Paladin's, and there was. [5]
I often think that the highest compliment ever paid to my poor efforts was paid by Darwin through President Eliot, of Harvard College. [5]
All great efforts that led up to the Fourth of July were made, not by Americans, but by English residents of America, subjects of the King of England. [5]
A longer time than I knew was consumed in this and repeated efforts to wait for the slackening and renewing storm to pass away. [4]
They are worse than failures now, because the public mind is lulled into a false security by them, and efforts at genuine prison reform are defeated. [4]
His face was terrible and piteous to see, especially from its helpless efforts to seem calm. [2]
When I was ten years old, like the twins, my life and efforts were already directed towards one fixed goal. [10]
He knew his task was a hard one, and that all efforts at discipline would have dangers. [11]
Pierre disturbed the symmetry by moving a chair for himself, and Berg and Vera immediately began their evening party, interrupting each other in their efforts to entertain their guest. [2]
His remittances had supported the Hawkins family, entirely, from the time of his father's death until latterly when Laura by her efforts in Washington had been able to assist in this work. [5]
And if to such a consummation the efforts of Mr. Clay shall have contributed, it will be what he most ardently wished, and none of his labors will have been more valuable to his country and his kind. [7]
It is a subject of gratulation that the efforts which have been made for the suppression of this inhuman traffic have been recently attended with unusual success. [7]
Madame Lavilette made strong efforts to secure her place; but she was not of an old French family, and this was an easy and convenient weapon against her. [11]
From early morning strenuous activities and efforts had begun and by ten o'clock all had been brought into due order. [2]
Then began the stir abroad, and the efforts to open up communication through roads, or fields, or wherever paths could be broken, and the ways to the meeting-house first of all. [4]
In this depressed state of the classical market, Mrs Jarley made extraordinary efforts to stimulate the popular taste, and whet the popular curiosity. [12]
Aristomachus too, in spite of his wooden leg, had performed miracles of bravery; but, notwithstanding all their efforts, neither he, nor any of his confederates in revenge, had succeeded in taking Psamtik prisoner. [10]
A reverently preserved souvenir of him is still one of the treasures of the islands: I gathered the idea, vaguely, that it was a jug, but was persistently thwarted in the twenty-two efforts I made to visit it. [5]
I have for some years depended on the assistance of a secretary, but our joint efforts have proved unable, of late, to keep down the accumulations which come in with every mail. [6]
But these efforts show what they think of the natural complexion, as distributed. [5]
Powhatan did not show himself, but his brother Apachamo, his successor, promised to use his best efforts to bring about a peace, and the expedition returned to Jamestown. [4]
Bent-Anat did not show herself to the widow, whose efforts failed to keep her daughter from accompanying the princess on her journey, or to induce her to return home. [10]

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