He cloaked his misdoings under a display of earnest endeavor in the better direction.

By earnest endeavor he obtained the perfect control of his passions, naturally very violent.

I treat them, one with earnest endeavor for realization, the other with supremest indifference.

Then, very suddenly, thought, and shuddering terror, and earnest endeavor to comprehend my true state.

Don't make an earnest endeavor to split the table asunder when playing a winning card.

Prudence contracted her brows in the earnest endeavor to compose a menu suitable for this occasion.

Hence it has been my earnest endeavor to maintain peace and friendly intercourse with all nations.

Goodness is not required of any of us, Hugh; only repentance, and an earnest endeavor to improve.

Could it ever emerge from its horrors, and rise through gradual but earnest endeavor to such perfection?

It has been my earnest endeavor justly to interpret, and faithfully to execute, the rules of the Senate.

Now you know very well that to seek a thing is to search for it with earnest endeavor.

They show a most earnest endeavor to beautify what to those who wrought them was the very house of God.

Old age is generally reckoned as sluggish, infirm, and not easily roused to deeds of active patriotism and earnest endeavor.

The first and greatest of these is that only by honest labor, by earnest endeavor, can a people become truly great.

No one can deny to Judge Tilden unimpeached honesty of purpose, warmth of heart, and an earnest endeavor to deal justly with all men.

Soon he had forgotten all about the exciting scenes of the day in an earnest endeavor to do a complicated example in profit and loss.