Fauntleroy looked up with a manful effort at a smile.

He made a manful effort to walk, but tottered reeled.

But he pulled himself together with a manful effort.

Once, by a manful effort, he managed to break away and run forward a few yards.

Ellen made a manful effort, all the way down the hill, to stifle the tears that were choking her.

But this manful effort brought him little comfort in the face of the chilling rain and with the whitecaps curling higher.

Simultaneously a famine was scourging Behar, and Vennard, to do him justice, had made manful efforts to cope with it.

"Of course, of course," said Tinker quickly, and by a manful effort he kept the brightness in his face.