she asked, her dry lips parting with an effort.

The Ramblin' Kid started to hand the cup to Gyp to be refilleda queer numbness swept over himthe cup fell from his handhe swayedtensed his body in an effort to get upmumbled thickly: "What th'what th'?" The tout backed away toward the door, crouching like a cat ready to spring, his beady eyes half-frightened, watching the poison deaden the faculties of the other.

Nevertheless, I made an effort.

the cruel, toneless words!After my tedious recovery I made an effort to see Mrs. Weston, although I had conceived a horror of the woman, but she was gone.

the sentiment of medicrioty fixes them there, it intimidates them, they dare not make an effort to please others.

" The high official restrained himself with an effort and, disregarding the allusion, decided to take another tack.

He told us he had sent for us to give him an account of an odd sensation he had for some time observed and felt in himself; which was, that, by composing himself, he could die or expire when he pleased; and yet by an effort, or somehow, he could come to life again, which he had sometimes tried before he had sent for us.

"Is it true that you are going to make a barmaid of Sheila?" Sylvester, in an effort to get to his feet, had been held back by Dickie's thin hand that shot out at him like a sword.

" I said I was glad he had noticed itI did make such an effort.

He reached down through the water, pulled out the colt, and with an effort swung himself about.

He was a little surprised to be brought to book like that, but he made hardly an effort to fence with her.

Upon an effort being made to purchase firearms from a Northern city, the express company, controlled by local men, refused to accept the consignment.

It was Willet who suggested when they came to a slight dip that they make an effort to build a fire.

There is a kind of anxious cleanliness which I have always noted as the characteristick of a slattern; it is the superfluous scrupulosity of guilt, dreading discovery, and shunning suspicion: it is the violence of an effort against habit, which, being impelled by external motives, cannot stop at the middle point.

He turned away with an effort and ran down the beach to the canoe.

I did not adequately appreciate the degradation of their expressions for some time; at last the sense of it took firm hold of me, and I cannot now handle the portraits without overcoming by an effort the aversion they suggest.

"To find the answers, will require an effort of mind; and, when right answers are given, they will be the result of reflection, and show that the subject is understood.

" The other made as though to speak twice; then, with an effort, he motioned to the butler.

" BEAUTIFYING INTELLIGENCE Galton's reference to the Damaras illustrates the well-known fact that, even where nature makes an effort at chiselling beautiful features the result is a failure if there is no moral and intellectual culture to inspire them, and this puts the grave-stone on the Concupiscence Theoryfor what have moral and intellectual culture to do with carnal desires?

He fixed his bold eyes on the vagabond he saw walking about the church, making an effort to raise his overhanging brows.

There is now an effort being made by a few of the London managers to pay a percentage on salaries for rehearsing.

He confessed that he had written a letter to President Boyer of the new black republic; "the letter was about the sufferings of the blacks, and to know if the people of St. Domingo would help them, if they made an effort to free themselves."

When it was near enough to render sight perfectly distinct, and speech audible without an effort, the crew ceased rowing, and permitted the boat to lie in a state of rest.

Against my inclination had I been drawn into the current of that youthful gayety, and now my bark floated without an effort on the stream.

I believe you have no other treasure to bribe her with," and, smiling in her sardonic way, she turned and limped to her bedroom, which it had cost her so great an effort to leave.