Exerting

Examples

• During the whole of this time, the poor young lady was exerting herself by the light of her solitary lamp, _à pure perte! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Thank you, said Dorothea, exerting herself, I am sure that is wise. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Again I rose; and, exerting all the firmness of which I was master, removed the planks which I had placed before my hovel to conceal my retreat. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• This personage had been exerting himself, with great alacrity, in driving all the flock of domestics to the other end of the verandah. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• You mistake me, you quite mistake me, she replied, exerting herself. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He does not at any time exert a large force, but he accomplishes his purpose by exerting a small force continuously through a correspondingly greater distance. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Putting the case between my knees and exerting my utmost strength, I contrived to draw off the cover. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Call the lady of the house, and I'll tell her everything,' said Mr. Pickwick, exerting his lungs to the utmost pitch. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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