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• Old Jolyon made an effort. (8)
• But the effort was painful. (4)
• Emilia made an effort to go. (10)
• There was no effort to deceive. (10)
• Diana had to recall them with effort. (10)
• Gyp made an effort to control a smile. (8)
• With a mighty effort he controlled himself. (12)
• Timothy Turbot assisted in that vast effort. (10)
• By a great effort, Carlo got some self-mastery. (10)
• The effort and the failure were both of good omen. (10)
• Arabella made a bitter effort to disengage herself. (10)
• He threw off the effort or pretence to be discreet. (10)
• Gregory recovered possession of himself with an effort. (8)
• The Countess was past the effort to attempt to stop him. (10)
• He left the room, where Gregory made no effort to keep him. (9)
• He made no effort to ascertain her feelings toward Fiorsen. (8)
• This desperate effort of her wits at the crisis succeeded. (10)
• To appear cool and careless was the great effort of his mind. (10)
• And Gyp, with a violent effort, threw off that sudden weakness. (8)
• His head, covered with dingy down, quivered with his effort to escape. (8)
• He made an effort to speak, but was too afraid of falsity in his voice. (8)
• Dan commanded his temper by a strong effort, and condescended to explain. (9)
• He sat down and sent his hair distraught with an effort at smoothing it. (10)
• He sat down and sent his hair distraught with an effort at smoothing it. (22)
• Speech that has to be hauled from the depths usually betrays the effort. (10)
• Rosamund restrained some tears, betraying the effort to hide the moisture. (10)
• In this effort we failed even more signally than before, if that were possible. (9)
• The effort succeeded so well, that he was presently striving to be insensible. (10)
• It was no effort to Catherine to believe that Henry Tilney could never be wrong. (4)
• We are mortals attaining the celestial accord with effort, through a stage of pain. (10)
• At the door he made another effort which shook the rolls of his loose skin pitiably. (10)
• She tried to rise, and failed in the effort, and superstitiously renewed her prayer. (22)
• It is not an effort at epigram to say, that whom she scourges most she most supports. (10)
• The effort of will required to go to Keith had relieved, exhausted and exasperated him. (8)
• I have seen the Truth face, to face, and am greatly encouraged to further public effort. (8)
• With a bold effort, I flung open my door, hurried down the stairs, and reached the hall. (6)
• With the most heroic effort of her life so far, she managed to arrest that swimming figure. (8)
• Wonderful and varied are the devices resorted to in the effort to evade legitimate payment. (21)
• His effort put the flame out and knocked the derrick over; it broke in fragments on the table. (9)
• The Great Artist who is the whole of Everything, is ever in fresh effort to achieve new things. (8)
• It is a little ticklish business at first but I have plenty of help ready for the first effort. (21)
• Nay, rather, it is alone amidst these things, and the eye takes note of them by a separate effort. (9)
• Nothing exasperates certain natures so much as the effort of the visibly weak to intimidate them. (10)
• The pewter was now so hot that the edge of the quart took away a piece of my mouth at every effort. (6)
• Yet, critical as was this lady, she acknowledged that it was no mere acting effort to suit the cap. (10)
• So dead fell her broken hope that her face was repellent with the effort she made to support herself. (10)
• The captain made no effort to perplex her tactics, merely saying that he should call in a day or two. (10)
• The chief effort is to create courage and daring, to develop those qualities where they already exist. (21)
• The shot rang through him and partly stunned him; but incredulity made a mocking effort to sustain him. (10)
• A virgin who loosens a dove from her bosom does it with no greater effort than Vittoria gave out her voice. (10)
• To speak would be to succumb; and shamefully after the effort; and hopelessly after being overborne by him. (10)
• She climbed unsuccessfully, it is true; soon despairing and using the effort as a pretext to fall back lower. (10)
• Late at night she had once more fought herself free of its embrace; now she lay there, exhausted by the effort. (12)
• The question sinks us back to the luxuriousness of a sunny relinquishment of effort in the direction against tide. (10)
• Though evidently intending to come in, it seemed an effort to enter the room, and a still greater to speak when there. (4)
• She would try, she would do her best, but the result would be a view clouded and discolored by the effort she must make. (9)
• He made a prodigious effort to control himself, while Breckon ran a little ahead, with some wild notion of preparing Ellen. (9)
• She could get nothing from him but that insensible round smile, and she took the ebbing of her poor effort for his rebuff. (10)
• Vittoria made her final effort to get a resolve of some sort; ending it with a compassionate exclamation over poor Giacinta. (10)
• He made an effort for dignity as well as gayety, however, in stating himself to March, with many apologies for his persistency. (9)
• Such natures, in the painful effort to reconcile apparent antagonism and read themselves, forget that they are not full grown. (10)
• In the space usually allotted to the animals, seats are put in position and a gallant effort made to get some financial return. (21)
• Why should he be punished as he was, stricken in a place so sacred that the effort to defend himself had seemed a kind of sacrilege? (9)
• Her feeling was, that she forgave the wrinkled Malignity: pity and contrition dissolving in the effort to produce the placable forgiveness. (10)
• It was, however, his last effort, for the wriggle he had given to his spine brought on a kind of vertigo, and he relapsed into unconsciousness. (8)
• That gospel of strenuous effort, which our statesmen and orators are so fond of shouting forth, has its followers in the little Jackson Harts. (13)
• The architect, who was very popular, went about more than ever, sometimes with his wife, and often alone, as her health did not permit much effort. (13)
• By a violent but vain effort to withdraw the blade the wound was enlarged; a rill of blood escaped, running sinuously down into the deranged clothing. (1)
• Complaints innumerable flow to the main entrance, but everybody receives a fair hearing and just treatment in so far as human effort can bring it about. (21)

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Definition of effort:

• effort, ef’fort, n. a putting forth of strength: attempt: struggle. | adj. ef’fortless, making no effort: passive. (0)

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