In his calm tacking, in his effortless play, in his superb mastery of the furious gale, one realized that here was one of Nature's masterpieces.
Every hunter has seen a whole troop, old and young, following the example of the leader, clear a road or donga twenty feet wide, apparently in an effortless stride.
When they are floating effortless thru space we cannot help recalling the possibly apocryphal anecdote which records the visit of Emerson and Margaret Fuller to the theater to see Fanny Elssler.
They are the perfection of effortless ease; altho they suggest only the lightness of the butterfly, they have the steel strength of the gymnast.
They come, we imagine, directly to us without human meddling, and they are the most effortless food for the mind conceivable.
But the facts men could come to possess in this effortlessway were limited.
They are classic born, and to love the simple in ornament or life should only be the effortless yielding of their wills to the instincts of our race.
This is one of the most effortless yet best balanced pictures in his collection.
He was speaking low and effortless French, completely absorbed in the developing ideas which issued fluently from his mustachios.
His angular anatomy expended and collected itself with an effortless spontaneity which is the prerogative of fairies perhaps, or at any rate of those things in which we no longer believe.
And after his arduous prelude, Mrs Ranyard's dancing was an effortless delight--if only she would not spoil it by her unceasing ripple of talk.
At that moment, a slight unmistakable figure stepped from the shadow of the verandah down the shallow steps flanked with pots of begonia; moving with the effortless grace that Roy's heart knew too well.
Neither the effortless growth of the tree nor the toilsome work of the builder suffice to represent the whole truth.
Both of these are beautiful images, in that they suggest that such progressive advancement is the natural consequence of life; and is in one aspect effortless and instinctive.
It was not that he was a perfect character, with a tranquil and effortless superiority, or with a high intellectual tenacity, or with an unruffled serenity.
This was the result, I suppose, of what Barthrop once dryly called the "effortless expansion" of Father Payne's personality.
Though advertisements for these machines make them seem effortless and fast, shredders actually take considerable time, energy, skilled attention, constant concentration, and experience.
Similarly, weeding with a sharp hoe is effortless and fast.
The trip took only a few minutes of seemingly effortless gliding, and then they emerged far on the other side of the giant city.
The policeman made a great show of studying the card and succeeded in pocketing the bill with the sameeffortless sleight-of-hand that the other had used in handing it over.
His troubles were for the moment being assuaged in the effortless indolence of the lotus-eaters.
These demonstrations her brother ignored as he carried her in effortless fashion out into the broad hall and half-way down the stairs.
Lady Ruth went back to her guests, and with the effortless ease of long training, she became once more the gracious and tactful hostess.
She leaned a little forward in her place, she passed with all the effortless facility of her ingenuous youth, into the dim world of golden fancies which the story of the opera was slowly unfolding.
Is not the calm, effortless forth-putting of His will the cause and the means of Creation?
Her easy, effortless smile passed across her face and in and out of her eyes.
He slipped from his horse with an effortless ripple, untied a tawny little pony with a thick neck, a round body, and a mild, intelligent face, and led him to Sheila who mounted from her sack.
A slow stroke or two restored him to his former level, with impetus to spare for his splendid effortless soaring.
Smooth as it looked, however, his dainty and discriminating hoofs were able to find some unevennesses upon it, for he took it in two effortless leaps, and landed among his followers with a shake of his splendid horns.
His swoop was as soft, soundless and effortless as if he had been but a wisp of feathers blown on a sudden puff of wind.
The figure is light as air and wholly effortless at the same time.
She was a reticent woman; almost saturnine, Io decided, though her perfect and effortless courtesy preserved her from being antipathetic to any one beneath her own roof.
Quite insensibly Marrineal withdrew from the conversation, sipping his coffee and listening with an effect of effortless amenity.
With a couple of effortless bounds, the blackcat reached the trunk and slipped up it with the ease and speed of a blacksnake.
Increase his speed as he would, the bat, in an effortless nonchalant manner, moved farther away.
The movements of his long, narrow wings and arrowy body were so effortless that it seemed impossible that he could overtake the other.
His reply seemed to perplex her--so did his light and effortless good-humour.
Talent usually damns people to aneffortless existence.
Stella felt now a shyness of him, a little dread of him, less sureness of herself, as he swung out of the machine and took the house steps with that effortless lightness on his feet that she remembered so well.
She saw him now coming from the hotel, and she regarded him thoughtfully, a powerful figure swinging along with light, effortless steps.
He sent the lightly built craft easily through the water with regular, effortless strokes.
As effortless as the style appears to be, it is in fact a supreme example of mastery of the brush, an instrument intended for carving lines rather than subtle shading and blending of wash.
Haiku today is a worldwide cult, with California poets striving to capture in English the spareness and fleeting images that seem so effortless in the Japanese of the early Zen masters.
Yet even in Sesson's work one can detect a polished, effortless elegance that seems to transform Sesshu's hard-earned power into an easy grace, a certain sign that the creative phase of Zen art had ended.
Like the other animals which were to be entered Ulysses was brushed, beautified and pampered for days preceding the fair, and in former years he had seemed to enjoy not only the extra corn but the effortless scratching.
Some Being, it seemed, was listening there, and not only listening, but imposing in an effortless but inevitable way its veiled purpose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "effortless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
