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Example sentences for "mighty effort"

  • If, in this momentous task, a mighty effort be exerted, the world of humanity will shine out with other adornings, and shed the fairest light.

  • To thank Him for this, make ye a mighty effort, and choose for yourselves a noble goal.

  • Make ye a mighty effort: perchance ye can flood this earth with light, that this mud hut, the world, may become the Abhá Paradise.

  • Still, by a mighty effort, he restrained himself from doing or saying aught which could be constrained into expressions of love, and their interviews were much like those which had preceded his last visit to Worcester.

  • Be it what it may, I was helped by Heaven that night to be a man, and with a mighty effort to shake off the spell that was on me.

  • But, with a mighty effort, I gathered up my courage, and, laughing at my qualms, pushed the door.

  • The full strength of the colonies was being exerted and England was making a mighty effort.

  • Alan Hervey spoke for the leading men of New York and he was to tell Albany for them that they would make a mighty effort.

  • Robert steadied himself, made a mighty effort, and they went on.

  • But soon, by a mighty effort, she seemed to gain control over herself.

  • A wild exclamation of fear and remonstrance started to her lips; but she remembered the doctor's warning, and by a mighty effort repressed it.

  • Then she rallied by a mighty effort, and sent Gretchen to see if there was a letter for her.

  • I have offered thee my service, O Cæsar," said Taurus Antinor with a mighty effort at deference and calm.

  • Death rather," exclaimed the young knight, and making a mighty effort, he split his adversary's head open from crown to jaw.

  • The hero of Bern made a mighty effort to master his grief.

  • Beowulf alone remained awake, and that only by a mighty effort.

  • Then, with a mighty effort, I recalled myself to the immediate enterprise.

  • Then, with a mighty effort, I swung myself up and stood safe on the top.

  • Then, with a mighty effort, my brave animal was struggling up the further side, where my servant was already shaking the water from his clothes.

  • With a mighty effort, the heroic girl seemed to pull herself together.

  • With a mighty effort he checked a blow that he had aimed at Dr.

  • With a mighty effort he seemed to get himself together.

  • Lucy Little, as if it cost him a mighty effort to get the words out.

  • The firm lips quivered and the strong hands writhed themselves in a mighty effort to master the emotions surging through his soul.

  • With a mighty effort he threw Dick off from him and stood on guard with an embarrassed, half-shamed, half-indignant laugh.

  • Vainly the doctor sought to gather his meaning, till, with a mighty effort, poor Scotty tried to speak.

  • I made a mighty effort, swung a hand up, and sunk my fingers in the throat of the soldier striving to kill me.

  • Larry; again he made a mighty effort to tear himself from the frog-man's grip; gave up with a groan.

  • I felt every faculty concentrate into a mighty effort.

  • Meanwhile, Mrs. Royden, with a mighty effort, had controlled her boiling and bursting temper, and hastened to her room.

  • Being introduced to him, and learning that he was Sarah's brother, the bachelor made a mighty effort to talk; but he found it so difficult to express his ideas, that it was really painful to listen to him.

  • Later that day, with a mighty effort, she summoned up courage enough to go down to her father.

  • The unfortunate woman had made a mighty effort to say thus much; her eyes lost their expression, her hand became like ice, a ghastly pallor overspread her face.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    against thee; another boat; best take; doubt whether; earlier date; fair knowledge; half speed; long look; luxuriant vegetation; mighty arms; mighty army; mighty effort; mighty energy; mighty glad; mighty hand; mighty hard; mighty lord; mighty monarch; mighty nice; mighty power; mighty wind; one else; rising early; sets forth; unknown origin; white man