Exertions

Examples

• As for my father, his desires and exertions were bounded to the again seeing me restored to health and peace of mind. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I entirely disapprove of your doing anything for him, my dear sir, which is not dependent on his own exertions and good conduct. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It has required my utmost exertions to exist without making the least progress in our business. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• We have no trace of him at present, although our exertions to discover him are unremitted; but they will not restore my beloved William. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Yet, do not confine your exertions to any one spot, noble friends! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• WE had now reached Switzerland, so long the final mark and aim of our exertions. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The navy had been making strenuous exertions to seal the harbor of Wilmington, but with only partial effect. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It cost some exercise of the white truncheon, well seconded by the exertions of the domestics, to silence this canine clamour. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• After various lesser mishaps, Meg was finished at last, and by the united exertions of the entire family Jo's hair was got up and her dress on. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• If the wind had not chanced, in the position I occupied, to set it away from me, my exertions might have ended then and there. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Rivalship and emulation render excellency, even in mean professions, an object of ambition, and frequently occasion the very greatest exertions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Miller wrote to Whitney on May 11, 1797, The event of the first patent suit, after all our exertions made in such a variety of ways, has gone against us. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Great objects, however, are evidently not necessary, in order to occasion the greatest exertions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Their exertions did not relax till the doctor arrived, when one by one, the senseless three were taken upstairs and put into warm beds. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It was town-talk for at least three days, and was only kept out of the newspapers by the exertions of Mr. Wagg, acting upon a hint from Mr. Wenham. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Adrian did not rest only with the exertions he could make with regard to his own possessions. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• What the _exertions_ were which Marie referred to, it would have been difficult to state. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Her excessive exertions brought on a slow fever, which ended in the dread disease whose approach soon released her from her sufferings. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And this Hospital is a capital piece of work, due entirely to Mr. Bulstrode's exertions, and in a great degree to his money. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• My exertions were unremitted: after a time I left Athens, and joined the army stationed at Kishan in Thrace. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I shall not forget your exertions in the garden at Clifton. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Your own excellent senseyour exertions for your father's sakeI know you will not allow yourself. Jane Austen. Emma.
• These exertions were but ill repaid. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Time did something, her own exertions something more, and she resumed her attentions to Susan, and again awakened the same interest in them. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• But just now she is only prostrated by the heat of the weather, and by the excitement of her cousin's visit, and the exertions she made. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• My friends, I said, our risk is common; our precautions and exertions shall be common also. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• To escape these evils was the aim and scope of all our exertions. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But at length she was secured by the exertions of Elinor, who greatly disapproved such continual seclusion. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• He was certainly much indebted to the exertions of all the very excellent performers who played in it, particularly Elliston and Harley. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I told her how the fear of her danger palsied my exertions, how the knowledge of her safety strung my nerves to endurance. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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