They regarded their teacher’s strenuous efforts to furnish a key to the acquirement of the alphabet with the amused superiority of "grown-ups" watching infant antics with pencil and paper.
Even now her own letters to Peter were no sprightly scrawl of passing events, but efforts whose seriousness suggested, at least in their carefully elaborated stages of structure, the letters of the ladies of Cranford.
But when he caught a man by the coat lapel in his efforts to secure a hearing, that was another matter, and the man shook him off as if his touch were contagion.
We should rather, if it was usual with us (historians) as it is with poets, begin with good omens, vows and prayers to the gods and goddesses to vouchsafe good success to our efforts in so arduous an undertaking.
Then indeed Sulpicius declared that there was no time for delay, crying out that they were surrounded and would be cut off from their own friends, unless they united all their efforts and despatched the engagement with the cavalry.
He graciously rewards their efforts for the Fatherland with disgrace or death.
Due to the untiring efforts of the four Brothers, his innocence was proven, and his good name restored.
Bullocks are probably less sensitive to pain than human creatures, but their pitiful efforts to keep their tails out of the way, and the prompt effect the brutal trick has upon their pace show that they also can feel.
After signal effortsto lift her up, the verdict was that their Aunt Lupin did no credit to her sex.
The unhappy merchant had made vehement efforts to perplex his hearing, that her words might be empty and not future dragons round his couch.
She frequently deplored my own lack of opportunities to improve, and made generous, if vain, efforts to provide them.
She put out a flurried hand to secure him, but he hopped out of her reach; further efforts resulted in his free flight through the church to perch on the top of the screen.
In addition to the foregoing means, local efforts might be made to encourage research in each great centre of industry; through the medium of the local scientific societies.
And by uniting with the frequent impressions of failure of our efforts and desire for more perfect enjoyment, it largely originates the idea of everlasting happiness.
And although several attempts have been made to secure permission of the Gettysburg Battlefield Association to change the position of one of the monuments to the proper site, thus far such efforts have failed.
For there was a terrible uncertainty for soldiers in those days and the much-quoted silver lining of the heavy clouds overhanging our country, was yet to be discovered in the future efforts of her loyal sons.
It is quite notorious that few painters paint both eyes of the same size; and after your utmost efforts to look straight in his face, he may make you squint for ever, and not see that he has done so.
The efforts made in Great Britain to introduce a general system of free trade, especially within the last three years, are thus enumerated in the Foreign and Colonial Review.
The aboriginal natives of this colony are a very savage race, and all the efforts hitherto made by missionaries, protectors, and others, have never given promise or warrant of effectual civilization.
Charles had now no man whom he could implicitly trust in hisefforts to become formally, but secretly, a Catholic.
The charges of the French cavalry were magnificent, but the squares in which Wellington had rapidly formed his troops resisted all the enemy's efforts to break them.
Their men were all new to them, as they had brought few back to England, and they realised at once that it would require strenuous efforts on their part to make up the leeway.
The enemy's strong force of cavalry made strenuous efforts to crush this portion of the line, and what immediately occurred is best described in the words of Napier.
I have an uncomfortable belief that that fellow Dwarro suspects the nature of the contents of these bags, despite our efforts at concealment.
This one made violent efforts to evade the blow, but the captain had anticipated as much.
This threw Miss Pritty into a state of unutterable confusion, because of herefforts to tell the truth and conceal the truth at one and the same time.
Being greatly superior to his fellows in mental and physical powers, it was natural that he should excel them in his efforts to escape.
Pungarin was among the number, and his almost superhuman efforts were directed to freeing himself from his rope, either by tearing his limbs out of it, or by snapping it asunder.
A little bewildered among so many fresh teachers, the small maid nevertheless made what efforts she could, and read loud and lustily, even if she did not altogether digest the matter she was supposed to be studying.
Rona had had her first lessons at The Woodlands, and was making heroic efforts to remember what she had learnt.
It took Rona's best efforts to help her companions to scale the high oak boards.
Her keen eyes would peer out of windows, and her head bob round doors in continual efforts to gain some idea of their mode of life.
To become an authorized Camp-fire member was an ambition with most of the girls, and spurred many on to greater efforts than they would otherwise have attempted.
Mrs. Arnold had lent them a small camp-oven, in which they could bake cakes, and many culinary efforts resulted from the acquisition.
That the French themselves understood this perfectly well is seen by the desperate effortsthey made to conciliate Somerset and win him to their side.
She bore him a numerous and handsome family, and her behaviour in clinging to her husband during his hour of danger, and making desperate efforts to save him, was rare at this strange period.
He made several efforts to get out of the Territory.
Soon afterwards we heard him making efforts to set his dogs on us.
The troops lay and watched each other several days, then the Gentiles made two efforts to force their way into the town by stratagem; but seeing our forces in order they did not come within range of our guns.
This opened the door, and men of former quiet became perfect demons in their efforts to spoil and waste away the enemies of the Church.
My efforts were rewarded by the sight of mules feeding among the buffalo.
The danger is obvious in that the hero generally makes an apparently quite trivial mistake and then must make extraordinary efforts to save himself from the effects of these few trivial errors.
The citizens were then placed upon strict rations, and in March notices were posted in the corridors of the jail to the effect that efforts to obtain victuals from outside were forbidden.
Block had united his efforts with my own when I solicited permission to go to Belgium during the long illness of my deceased wife.
The Decembrists, as they came to be called, failed, as they were bound to do, but it would be a mistake to suppose that their efforts were altogether vain.
So Kerensky, wearied by his tremendous efforts to perform the task assigned him by the workers, answered Lenine.
Looting of stores began, and there were many victims of the police efforts to disperse the crowds.
The Socialist parties were making special efforts to educate the illiterate voters how to use their ballots correctly.
But the efforts of the Finns to secure a modification of the Russification policy were quite fruitless.
These congresses and these committees have charged us to use all our efforts to defend the Constituent Assembly, binding themselves, on their part, in case our efforts were insufficient, to rise in a body for its defense.
And the Revolution will need the efforts of many to overcome the disorganization left her as a heritage by these robbers and executioners.
It was said later that efforts had been made to induce him to join the new government, but that he declined to do so.
The united efforts of the people and all the thousands of forces of the country would have permitted it to come to the end of its difficulties and to find a solution of the situation.
Heroically Kerensky sought to make successful the efforts of General Kornilov, as commander-in-chief, to restore order and discipline in the army, but it was too late.
The distracted author had stirred up the postal authorities at London and Norwich, and had ultimately received a courteous communication from the Postmaster General to the effect that all efforts to trace the missing packet had failed.
This to the dog, which had become entangled in the skein of wool on her lap, and was making franticefforts to free itself.
Although, however, in everything else he did gradually succeed in recovering all the ground his father had lost him, yet there was one respect in which, I am sorry to say, he found all his efforts to retrieve himself hopeless.
He made more wild efforts to explain, but the sense of his danger only petrified his mind instead of stimulating it.
He had hoped to reach sanctuary before the other two could overtake him; but he soon discovered that the gate was shut fast, and all his efforts would not bring him within reach of the bell-handle--he was too short.
But in spite of his efforts the chase was a short one.
Byron's first poetical efforts were failures; so were those of Bulwer-Lytton and Beaconsfield, both in literature and oratory.
His undoubted genius and ability as an author attracted the hearty friendship of Johnson and Steele, both of whom made earnest efforts to save him from himself; but dissolute habits had taken too firm a hold of him.
All authorities combine in pronouncing the great speech of Sheridan on the impeachment of Warren Hastings to be one of the grandest oratorical efforts known to us.
The duet and chorus in "Judas Maccabaeus," and some others of his finest efforts were produced after his total deprivation of sight; nor did he cease to conduct his oratorios in public on account of his blindness.
Salvator Rosa was the son of a poor architect who made ineffectualefforts to thwart his son's predilection for art, but all in vain.
The same influence reached Thomas Clarkson and stimulated his early efforts for the abolition of the slave-trade; and in after life the volume of the New Jersey Quaker was the cherished companion of himself and his amiable helpmate.
Apart from the interest excited by the subjects under discussion, and viewed only as literary productions, they may be ranked among the highest intellectual efforts of their author.
The single object which its constitution prescribes, and to which all its efforts are necessarily directed, is African colonization from America.
To his efforts may be traced the proclamation of emancipation in Hayti by the commissioners of the French convention, and indirectly the subsequent uprising of the blacks and their successful establishment of a free government.
I scarcely expected then that the people for whom I pleaded would ever know of my efforts in their behalf.
Failing in our efforts to solve the problem of the origin of evil, we fall back upon the idea of a malignant being,--the antagonism of good.
The unsupportedefforts of Elliot in New England were counteracted by the imprisonment, and in some instances the massacre of his "praying Indians," by white men under the exasperation of war with hostile tribes.
There is work yet to be done which will task the best efforts of us all.
She sat up very straight and stared at it, watching its efforts to get over and past the edge of her mat.
He was a grave baby; and she did her best by cheery gesticulations and encouraging, humorous sounds, to accustom him to mirth, but her efforts were fruitless.
Every day at tea-time he was enraged by this want of care in Herr Dremmel, and every day before and after tea he was engrossed, if abortive efforts to philander can be called so, in not taking care of her himself.
She turned to the children and the housekeeping and to a search for something she could do in the parish, so that at least while she was making efforts to clear her confusion about Robert she might not be wasting time.
Its recognition was mainly due to the efforts of Augustus, elector of Saxony.
But he was aware that it was a grievous waste of his small stock of force, and that he made these efforts at the cost of more valuable work.
The longer efforts partake of the nature of translations from sundry medieval compilations like those of Guido di Colonna and Boccaccio, which are in Latin.
He began to regard the prospect of business as worry, and had no longer the nerve to brace himself to the socialefforts required of one who represents a large constituency.
During the remaining years of his life his effortsat administration were directed mainly towards the organization and development of the great North-West.
The commission had to report that its efforts had failed.
His father was a farmer who had invented numerous labour-saving devices for farmwork, but after repeated efforts had failed in his attempts to construct a successful grain-cutting machine.
In the war of 1870 he used his best efforts as a mediator, and accompanied the provisional government to Tours.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "efforts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
