61 Metaphors for efforts

His efforts were those of an infuriated animal, his uncontrolled outburst of hatred rendering him utterly reckless of results in his struggle to overcome me at any cost.

However far science may extend the limits of human knowledge, there is undoubtedly a point which it cannot pass; and it was here precisely that Pascal placed the only interest in lifein the effort which we ceaselessly make to know morethere was only one reasonable meaning in life, this continual conquest of the unknown.

The last effort of this distinguished artist was the building of three superb palaces for the museum of the Emperor at St. Petersburg, finished in 1851.

The grandest efforts of the Romans were feats of engineering skill, rather than creations inspired by the love of the beautiful.

It marches at its human pace, its very effort is its glory.

The daring effort of Charles Edward to recover the crown of these kingdoms for his father, is to us the most remarkable incident of the last century.

and, trusting in HIM without whom all human effort is weakness, let us not doubt that our faithful endeavors to preserve the rights HE has given us will, through HIS blessing, be crowned with success.

The bold effort the present bank has made to control the Government, the distresses it has wantonly produced, the violence of which it has been the occasion in one of our cities famed for its observance of law and order, are but premonitions of the fate which awaits the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.

Old Chloeshe was my black mammy, you knowhad a grown daughter of her own, and her effort to dispose of her 'M'randy' was a standing joke in the family.

Loosening the soil all around, we attempted to raise the jar out of the ground, but all our efforts were unavailingits great weight preventing us from lifting it one inch out of the bed.

After all we men must admit that her sporting effort is a distinct score for the second oldest sex in the world.

Another effort that brought splendid results was the giving out of little earthen jugs in the early summer to be brought to the harvest home in September with their garnerings.

The earliest effort in this direction of which we have any knowledge is The King and Queen of Hearts, 1805, and the latest Prince Dorus, 1810 or 1811, unless we count Beauty and the Beast, possibly 1811, which in my opinion he did not write.

The room resounded with the blows, and the efforts of Mrs. Grummit were a revelation even to her husband.

Many difficulties were encountered, many obstacles had to be overcome, and the efforts of unprincipled men to pirate the invention, or to infringe on the patent, were the cause of numerous lawsuits.

2. The effort to grab and keep, with its accompanying competition, is a chief source of social progress.

" His effort to be cheerful was perhaps the richest colour of that odd scene there in the still woods and the firelight.

But prose efforts are one thing, and poetical efforts are another, and just as many have laboured to present Virgil and Homer in modern language, in metre, in rhyme, in rhythm; so, many poets and verse-makers, in different ages and in different climes, have laboured to turn into modern poetic form and into their own national tongue the poems of the Breviary.

For once he found himself worsted, and his mightiest efforts regarded as mere flea-bites; for Skrymir's talk about leaves and acorns and moss was merely a sly piece of humor, levelled at poor crestfallen Thor, as he afterwards acknowledged.

This feeble effort was the last exploit of that slothful and cowardly prince for the defence of his dominions.

Those early efforts were doubtful experiments even to some of the missionaries.

It occurred to her that an effort to read to the bottom of the sea captain's romance would be a charming diversion while she resided at Millville, and in undertaking the task she laughingly accused herself of becoming an amateur detectivean occupation that promised to be thrilling and delightful.

His first literary efforts were translations in verse from the German, but his first great literary success was the publication, in 1802, of "The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border," and in this he first gave evidence both of the native force and bent of his genius; it gave the keynote of all that subsequently proceeded from his pen.

Aside from the translations already mentioned, the first literary efforts of Miss Evans were her articles in the "Westminster Review," a heavy quarterly, established to advocate philosophical radicalism.

Well has a modern master of art and style said of these old artists, "Many pictures are ostentatious exhibitions of the artist's power of speech, the clear and vigorous elocution of useless and senseless words; while the earlier efforts of Giotto and Ciniabue are the burning messages of prophecy delivered by the stammering lips of infants.

61 Metaphors for  efforts