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Meanings of earnest endeavor in English

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Usage of earnest endeavor in English
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He cloaked his misdoings under a display of earnest endeavor in the better direction.
The Triumph of John Kars: A Story of the Yukon
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By earnest endeavor he obtained the perfect control of his passions, naturally very violent.
The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power
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I treat them, one with earnest endeavor for realization, the other with supremest indifference.
Henry Ossian Flipper, the Colored Cadet at West Point / Autobiog...
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Then, very suddenly, thought, and shuddering terror, and earnest endeavor to comprehend my true state.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
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Don't make an earnest endeavor to split the table asunder when playing a winning card.
The Silly Syclopedia / A Terrible Thing in the Form of a Literar...
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Prudence contracted her brows in the earnest endeavor to compose a menu suitable for this occasion.
Prudence of the Parsonage
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Hence it has been my earnest endeavor to maintain peace and friendly intercourse with all nations.
State of the Union Addresses
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Goodness is not required of any of us, Hugh; only repentance, and an earnest endeavor to improve.
The Old Stone House
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Could it ever emerge from its horrors, and rise through gradual but earnest endeavor to such perfection?
Mizora: A Prophecy / A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of th...
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It has been my earnest endeavor justly to interpret, and faithfully to execute, the rules of the Senate.
Something of Men I Have Known / With Some Papers of a General Na...
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Now you know very well that to seek a thing is to search for it with earnest endeavor.
New Tabernacle Sermons
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They show a most earnest endeavor to beautify what to those who wrought them was the very house of God.
The Old Franciscan Missions Of California
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Old age is generally reckoned as sluggish, infirm, and not easily roused to deeds of active patriotism and earnest endeavor.
Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, ...
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The first and greatest of these is that only by honest labor, by earnest endeavor, can a people become truly great.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 01
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No one can deny to Judge Tilden unimpeached honesty of purpose, warmth of heart, and an earnest endeavor to deal justly with all men.
Cleveland Past and Present: Its Representative Men / Comprising ...
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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.
The Young Bridge-Tender; or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle
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