After three hours of gigantic effort in following Tranquil's trail, the latter stopped, and had them look around them.
The monk assembled by a supreme effort all the vigour his previous attempts had left him, and raising himself by his arms, tried to get astride on the branch.
The men of the Mary Mac, however, made a vigorous effort to get their longboat out.
The piers were covered with ice, and the gale was so strong that the men could hardly stand, while the crews of the wrecks were so benumbed that they could make little effort to help themselves.
Sending for Captain Popple, she asked if any effort had been made to salve the large sum of money and store of jewelry on board the yacht.
With a splendid effort the older woman raised herself in the bed and summoned a wan smile.
As for the trawler, or any appliance you think necessary, I wish Monsieur Gueho to understand that every effort should be made to recover the boxes I spoke of.
Success at the first effort means that the fortunate aspirant for matrimony will either be married within a year or receive a favorable offer.
Every sort of effort was put forth to find me, but without success.
Ingersoll, baffled in the effort to follow her train of thought.
With an effort that cost a cruel biting of her under lip, she contrived to murmur without a catch in her voice: "You're tired, Darling.
Will you, then, tell your father that I shall leave here the day after that case is put into my hands, or, if the sea refuses to disgorge, when I am assured that further effort at salvage is useless?
I insist," she said, with a very creditable effort at a coquettish glance.
By this time Ingersoll had advised the cessation of any effort to persuade her to return.
Of course I know why Mrs. Carmac is so anxious that the effort should be made.
Peridot thought he had gone far enough: his next effort showed less exuberance.
Mutual privations and combined effort to improve their lot would have bound them by insoluble ties.
With an effort he brushed aside the evil fantasy, and was about to summon Yvonne when a weird, uncanny, elfin shriek came from the shadow of the largest and blackest tree.
We all made the biggesteffort we could for you and for her.
Grice made another effort to speak, but before words reached his lips his mood changed, and he turned on his heel and left the house.
It was with an obvious effort that she got out two words.
Jeckie made an effort of memory, and remembered how much money there had been in the old bureau of which her father spoke--something between forty and fifty pounds, as far as she could recollect.
Her classmates soon found that they could learn a lesson in half the time and with half the effort by studying it with Anne.
She had a kind heart, but the girls thought her cross because she was always making a worried effort to secure the order and attention which came of themselves as soon as Mademoiselle entered the study-hall.
The good-natured stewardess bustled about in a vain effort to find Mr. Carey Mayo.
He was a tall, overgrown lad, absorbed in the sports and work of his school-world, at a loss what to say to the silent, reserved business man who made such an effort to talk to him.
And thus was my last effort at a disclaimer cut short by the loquacious little colonel, who regarded my unfinished sentence as a concurrence with his own opinion.
Every effort was made by the Post Office, in the way we have shown in the Bilston case, to stem the tide of improvidence which generally sets in at such a time, and in this case with great success.
His whole life," says a contemporary, "was the continued and strenuous effort of a powerful mind to promote the welfare of the state and the happiness of his fellow creatures.
An effort to secure release was made some years later in regard to Jacobite prisoners of note, less successfully, although the grounds alleged were the same and equally valid.
An efforthad been made in 1419 to put pressure upon them as a class.
King" Plummer's effort to hold himself in his chair seemed to be a strain.
He returned to the car, and Harley was left alone just then, as he wished to be, and with an effort he dismissed Miss Morgan from his thoughts.
He had seen many women who were beautiful, and some who were brilliant, but it had been easy to forget every one of them; they hardly made a ripple in the stream of his work, and often it was an effort to recall them.
The second trial was more successful, and he soon became absorbed in the effort to describe Mr. Grayson and his remarkable personality, which might be either deep and complex or of the simplest Western type.
The crying ceased, all save an occasional low, half-smothered sob, as if the woman were making a supreme effort to control her feelings.
It required littleeffort of the imagination to draw a picture of the brave mountaineer riding from the Indian massacre with that little girl upon his saddle-bow.
I am not (as yet) a married woman--" Father Benwell made a last desperate effort to pave the way for one more question before he submitted to defeat.
She put another question--without quite concealing the effort that it cost her, or the anxiety with which she waited for the reply.
Among his first efforts at speaking, under his mother's instruction, had been the effort to call me Uncle Bernard.
His anger was trebly intensified by the long-continued strain on his nerves of the effort to control himself.
Stella had done all that a wife could do to fill the vacant place; and her husband's fondness had accepted the effort as adding another charm to the lovely creature who had opened a new life to him.
I want nothing, thank you," Romayne answered, with an effortto control his habitual impatience of needless delay.
Reflecting on all that had passed at my memorable interview with Romayne, I felt some surprise that one of the persons present had made no effort to prevent the burning of the will.
For a moment there was even the shadow of a smile on his face, as I told him of the effort that Penrose had vainly made to be the companion of my journey.
For the first time, the sad repose of Stella's face was disturbed--I could see that it cost her an effort to repress her indignation.
They bowed to each other; they spoke the conventional words proper to the occasion--but the effort that it cost them showed itself.
This fine feat was not a barren one: it was well worth the effort and loss which it must have cost.
They it was who established that continuous line of progressive agricultural development and who prepared the way for the later yet more continuous line of the full monastic effort which succeeded the Conquest.
What is equally interesting, when a high civilisation after its littleeffort begins to decline into one of those long periods of repose into which all such periods of energy do at last decline, the river reassumes its importance.
On his own principles Wordsworth should have admired this unaffected statement; but Wordsworth rarely praised his contemporaries, and said that "Guy Mannering" was a respectable effort in the style of Mrs. Radcliffe.
In "The Master of Ballantrae" Mr. Stevenson makes a gallant effort to enter what I have ventured to call the capital of his kingdom.
For a moment I felt ashamed, because even before I made this effort to see if it was worth while to take the grave risks which I saw before us, I knew that she was sobbing.
They believe your papers are still hidden in that house and that an effort may be made to secure them.
Comprehensive effort and manly determination alone are needed to begin the task of supplying Brooklyn with what is due to the city and its visible future.
Hence the varieties of effort to supply the people have usually proved inadequate.
And now it revived her dulled faculties, and by an effort she regained control of herself.
In her growing excitement Madeline had not clearly heard Ambrose's low whispers and she made an effortto distract some of her attention from those below to the cowboy crouching beside her.
And her effortat sympathy, at extenuation, failed utterly before her pride.
Consular officers in various sections of Mexico have been directed to make every effort to locate Dunne and save his life.
He stood before her folding his scarf, which was still wet, and from which he made no effort to remove the red stains.
The dizziness left her presently, and then she made an effort to ride without help.
Stillwell's great bulk quivered with his rage, yet he made a successful effort to control it.
She made an effort not to listen, and it was futile.
It required an effort for her to retain her outward tranquillity.
There came a time when all her strength seemed to unite in an effort to lift her breast against the terrific force of the wind--to draw air into her flattened lungs.
He knew himself in the cemetery, and immediately, by a tremendous effort of the brain, he had arranged his knowledge of the place and decided exactly where he was.
It was a sublime effort on his part to be his natural self.
The evangelist's call for decisions is often cumbered with that which is misleading or is a positive misstatement of the terms of Salvation; thus the appeal is lost and the whole effort fails.
The effort is plainly effective; more so than a mere shifting of political fortune could possibly be; for the statement follows: "All the world wondered after the beast who had received the deadly wound and yet lived.
This blighting Satanic opposition can be detected in every effort for the salvation of the lost.
Here, as in every human effort to be God-like, Satan's ideals and methods are so thrust upon the world that the natural dependence of the creature upon the Creator is made to seem a weak and unreasonable thing.
Will he present the sacrifice of a sincere effort to be moral and religious: or accept the God-provided sacrifice for all sin, in the shed blood of Christ?
The motive for thiseffort is all-sufficient: they have "partaken of the Divine nature" (II Pet.
Christ is referred to, it is spoken of as the effort of the Creator's arm: "Who hath believed our report?
Satan has no controversy or warfare with his own unregenerate people, but there is abundant Scripture to prove that he makes unceasing effort to mar the life and service of believers.
A glimpse is revealed from time to time of the unceasing effort of Satan to triumph over the Second Adam, as he had done over the first.
This necessary effort to understand the real meaning of many passages has, therefore, placed the simple truth they contain beyond the average reader of the Bible.
She made an effort to stretch out a shadowy hand to grasp mine.
She made a frantic effort to raise herself in bed.
There is an instinctive consciousness in his own mind of the difference between high and low art; but he is utterly incapable of explaining it, and every effort which he makes to do so involves him in unexpected fallacy and absurdity.
I referred, but now, to the effort we are making to improve the designs of our manufactures.
The age seconded their efforts, and banished beauty, so far as human effortcould succeed in doing so, from the face of the earth, and the form of man.
I believe there has only been one man who would not acknowledge this necessity, and strove always to reach perfection, Leonardo; the end of his vain effort being merely that he would take ten years to a picture and leave it unfinished.
Art is neither to be achieved by effort of thinking, nor explained by accuracy of speaking.
If you are to have the thought of a rough and untaught man, you must have it in a rough and untaught way; but from an educated man, who can without effort express his thoughts in an educated way, take the graceful expression, and be thankful.
Is it the effort of their lives to be chaste, knightly, faithful, holy in thought, lovely in word and deed?
In a large number of instances, language such as this will be found to be merely a clumsy effort to convey to others a sense of the admiration, of which the writer does not understand the real cause in himself.
When I heard whither thou hadst been cast, then I saw my way to making an effort to save thee.
The beast was hungry, and the criminal exposed made little effort to resist.
She frowned slightly, peering from beneath the lamp in an effort to make out his features.
When he gazed at her with kindly incredulity, she edged herself closer and bent forward in a generous effort to persuade him.
Horatia gave a groan; but so great was her anxiety to hear the truth that she made a great effort and controlled herself.
The gate-keeper went to find George, who was again at the telephone in a vain effort to communicate with his sister, with whom he felt very irritated for leaving him without news for so long.
All the foundations are made alike and no effort should be spared to see that the boxes are level and in line with each other.
