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• All efforts were directed to this end. (12)
• Clara had made one of her greatest efforts. (8)
• The approach of night quickened his efforts. (1)
• Anxious efforts at recollection perplexed him. (10)
• Anxious efforts at recollection perplexed him. (22)
• What efforts had been made prior to his appearance? (3)
• He rose, after two or three efforts, quite subdued. (10)
• Heroic efforts were not wanting to arrest the union. (10)
• He gives all his efforts to seeing that it is praised. (16)
• Virginia dismissed the forlornest of efforts at incredulity. (10)
• A natural delicacy would interfere and mar his noblest efforts. (8)
• I do it myself: but only where there have been amiable efforts. (10)
• It was pitiful to see his efforts to blind himself to the reality. (8)
• Between the two efforts she had no sense but that of helplessness. (10)
• He redoubled his efforts to find something good about the drawings. (8)
• What had the world given him in return for his efforts to gain it? (10)
• The efforts of Congress are futile against the languor of the people. (18)
• His silvered head and beard moved slightly to the efforts of his brain. (8)
• The advance of some German or Russian nobleman spared me further efforts. (10)
• Thus ended her efforts to reach that world which lay outside her own circle. (13)
• He remembered his efforts to pour whiskey into the glass without spilling it. (13)
• King Louis made great efforts to get Nova Scotia back into his power, but in vain. (19)
• Then came stern efforts to command his misery and make the nerves of his face iron. (10)
• And, as he ran, he made little desperate efforts to mop his face, and brush his clothes. (8)
• So are we nerved to break the clinging mesh Which tames the noblest efforts of poor flesh. (10)
• So long as composers confined their efforts to using fixed melodies, they could not go far. (3)
• They knew as little as he, but a force was behind them irresistible against their efforts. (10)
• And is it just or wise to direct our efforts to overthrow a solid structure that is a part . (10)
• But his efforts to keep liquor from the Indians only made the traders hate him more bitterly. (19)
• The tumult of irony, abuse, and retort, went on despite the efforts of Drummond and the chairman. (10)
• That plush of speech haunts all efforts to swell and illuminate citizen prose to a princely poetic. (10)
• He found the widow in the stable, directing the efforts of two men servants in unpacking some cases. (13)
• She made loyal efforts to understand him in these weeks that were bringing a certain disillusionment. (8)
• Bruneau is sincere and earnest in his efforts at realism, but his music is often heavy and uninspired. (3)
• But such efforts at conceiving one great one by incorporation of minors are vain, and cry for excuse. (10)
• Having thus relieved his spleen the old gentleman addressed himself to further efforts and waxed hotter. (10)
• In spite of his efforts the feeling of faintness passed, and, taking his hand, she stroked it gratefully. (8)
• But in politics, beyond acting as the figure-head of certain municipal efforts, he took little or no part. (8)
• He seemed to be using against us the law of probabilities: of so many efforts one would eventually succeed. (7)
• Lavender sighed, and at this manifestation of his grief his sheep-dog redoubled her efforts to comfort him. (8)
• By taking it on yourself, you see, this wild young man will not require such frightful efforts of persuasion. (10)
• In his praiseworthy efforts to accommodate the keyhole, Ripton discovered that the desk was already unlocked. (10)
• His efforts at harmonizing were rather crude, as is to be expected, since he had but few models in composition. (3)
• He would have the Portuguese for this and that, and make Anglican efforts to repeat it, and laugh at his failures. (10)
• Rose laughed at his fruitless efforts to get free; but Ferdinand meditatively appeared to catch a sentiment in them. (10)
• In recent years his pen was a great aid to Theodore Thomas in his efforts to establish the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. (3)
• He had almost forgotten how to find his way about, and came across his old mansion in his efforts to regain his hotel. (10)
• Rain and mud annoy and retard, sometimes, but extra efforts nullify, in a great measure, the effect of their presence. (21)
• Weikhardt told about his marriage, his work, his vain efforts after economic security, and finally gossipped a little. (12)
• When Niels Heinrich, however, had cast the woman off, Heinzen began to pursue her again, but his efforts were fruitless. (12)
• The public will be glad to learn that the efforts of the police have brought about the apprehension of her probable slayer. (12)
• To prolong her efforts far into the night cost her no struggle; five hours of sleep refreshed her and renewed her strength. (12)
• Urged on by their shouts and the noise of the pursuing car, the poor dog redoubled her efforts to rejoin her master, and Mr. (8)
• Through the efforts of many concerns the market affords many well-designed stock patterns of mouldings for exterior purposes. (17)
• The Commander of Philadelphia took his leave, and everybody smiled as he made extra efforts to steady his steps out of the room. (18)
• An implacable reason sits in its place, with a keen blade for efforts to carry the imposture further afield or make it agreeable. (10)
• It was this merger, this mysterious, unconscious Love, which was lacking to the windy efforts of those who tried to sail that fleet. (8)
• Nor when Franko started from his arm to declaim a passage, did he do other than make limp efforts to unite himself to Franko again. (10)
• His efforts of entertainment occupied the sole attention of the audience at times, as with voice or action he provided fun and folly. (21)
• What that revealed of her state of conscience and her nature, his efforts to preserve the lovely optical figure blocked his guessing. (10)
• Their efforts were so successful that he revived sufficiently to drive them out of his room, and make them go and show Boardman to his. (9)
• The achievement of common efforts, not usually blazoned, he celebrated as triumphs, and, of course, had Adrian on his back very quickly. (10)
• His efforts to fish the word out of Patrick produced deeper crevasses in the conversation, and he cried to himself: Hats and crape-bands! (10)
• No wonder that the efforts of both were heating: they were engaged in the task of ridding the globe of the larger half of its inhabitants. (10)
• The unhappy merchant had made vehement efforts to perplex his hearing, that her words might be empty and not future dragons round his couch. (10)
• Accordingly, all the colonies met in consultation, and by great efforts a fleet of seven vessels and several hundred men was raised in Boston. (19)
• His many friends placed him, by their efforts, in comfortable pecuniary circumstances; yet he constantly imagined himself struggling with poverty. (3)
• They meant so much: so many thousand hours of suppressed irritation, so many baffled longings and earnest efforts to bring their natures together. (8)
• Felix, familiar with the appearance of London police courts, noted the efforts that had been made to create resemblance to those models of administration. (8)
• The history of mankind shows our painful efforts to find one, but they have invariably resolved themselves into asceticism, or laxity, acting and reacting. (10)

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