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Example sentences for "great effort"

  • It was hard to say what I was thinking about, but with a great effort I stammered it out at last.

  • But at last, with a great effort to control myself, I took his hand and kissed it, and then turned my face to the wall.

  • Miller said that he had not been able to obtain possession of these letters, but he should make a great effort to capture those which might come in the future.

  • I could hardly keep my hands off his throat when I recollected his villainy; but I curbed my temper by a great effort, as I knew that a personal encounter between us would only publish my sister's shame to the world.

  • He had been at work on the sermon all the day, for its delivery was to be a great effort.

  • He was the first to break the silence, and he spoke with a great effort, and with many pauses.

  • Ruth questioned, bringing out the words with a great effort.

  • Skeffy bit his lip, and by a great effort succeeded in repressing the rising temptation to another scream of laughter, and, taking down a bulky red-covered volume from a shelf, began to turn over its pages.

  • Whenever his intellect was called on for a great effort he was sure to be vanquished, and he would sit for hours before an open book as hopeless of mastering it as though the volume were close-clasped and locked before him.

  • Second to a censure of himself, the severest thing for poor Tony to endure was any sneer at his countrymen; but he made a great effort to remain patient, and did not utter a word.

  • I was wearing trousers with frills to them, and hunting butterflies at that time," said Mrs. Ricketts, with a great effort at a smile.

  • At last, with a great effort, he pushed all the gold into the centre of the table, and cried out, but in a voice so strange and inarticulate that the words could not be distinguished.

  • Norwood listened with the stern collectedness of one who had nerved himself for a great effort.

  • Grounsell's face grew purple, but with a great effort he repressed the reply that was on his lips, and was silent.

  • With a great effort of the will he ruled himself to quietness again.

  • She fell back in her chair, white and faint, but, with a great effort, she conquered the swimming weakness which blinded her.

  • Mr Pecksniff answered that it would be dreadfully hard to bear, but he thought he could, if he made a great effort.

  • With which consolatory deduction from the gloomy premises recited, Mr Tigg roused himself by a great effort, and proceeded in his former strain.

  • He seemed to sit on his horse only by a great effort, and on his face was a drawn look of pain.

  • By a great effort, overcoming the faintness that seemed to be returning, Jack scrambled to his feet.

  • The young express rider reeled in his saddle, but he kept his seat by a great effort.

  • She obeyed in silence, controlling her feelings by a great effort, until she had gained the privacy of her own apartments, then giving way to a fit of almost hysterical weeping.

  • I suppose I could if I should make a great effort," he answered laughingly.

  • Then he heard his name called, and with a great effort he answered; his voice seemed not his own in his ears.

  • He made a great effort at self-repression, and looked up with hard bright eyes at his sister.

  • Ralph made a great effort, for he was sorely perplexed by Sir Thomas' attitude, and began to talk, putting all the reasons forward that he could think of for the accepting of the oath.

  • Making a great effort, she said in a very low voice, "I do love you, dear Joseph.

  • When she had felt the velvety flesh, and came to the conclusion that it was really alive, she was pleased enough; and had to make a great effort to keep from crying that I did not bring it home with me.

  • Making a great effort to control himself, the distressed invalid proceeded to say, that while abroad many years ago, he had met a lady who interested him more than any one he had ever seen.

  • It was by a great effort of will that he succeeded in concealing his eagerness beneath his habitual air of lofty condescension: "Eh?

  • Then suddenly with a great effort of will she checked the scream which had forced itself up to her throat.

  • But in the face of his abominable callousness, she made a great effort to regain her self-control.

  • She almost choked, but, making a great effort, she controlled herself.

  • But as soon as she realised she was being looked at, she made a great effort, and even persisted in wishing to finish the panel of heavy embroidery for the Bishop's seat.

  • Linton, with a great effort to appear as much at ease as the other.

  • As Cashel seated himself beside Enrique, it was only by a great effort he could compose himself to listen, when a hundred questions came thronging to his mind, and doubts and inquiries, of every possible kind, demanded explanation.

  • I am obliged, indeed, to make a great effort to master it sufficiently to write this.

  • At last Percy, by a great effort, recovered himself; and explained to him the whole circumstances of the case.

  • The smile was still upon her lips, kept there by a great effort.

  • It was with a great effort that he steadied his nerves and went quietly up the stairs.

  • She forced them back with a great effort.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great ability; great addition; great advance; great alarm; great and; great care; great celebrity; great centre; great effect; great evil; great future; great general; great kingdom; great length; great measure; great opinion; great pace; great promise; great shape; great spear; great straits; great style; great that; great trade; great trees; great trouble