The New South Wales Government made praiseworthy efforts to rescue the missing traveller.

The clergy make most praiseworthy efforts to reform such an abuse.

In his praiseworthy efforts to accommodate the keyhole, Ripton discovered that the desk was already unlocked.

She succeeded in her praiseworthy efforts, but at what cost no one but herself ever knew.

And this was so, notwithstanding the praiseworthy efforts of Archbishop Abbott to modify the practical working of these royal notions.

Their instruments were seriously damaged, and their results, despite most painstaking and praiseworthy efforts, must be regarded as somewhat disappointing.

These are indeed great and praiseworthy efforts, in which utilitarianism has assumed a new character, and found a new field of action.

He understood that Mr. Alison was making most praiseworthy efforts to impede the fatal habits of intoxication that were only too prevalent.

He was attracted by her extreme beauty and his admiration was increased on learning her praiseworthy efforts to maintain herself and mother.

She made praiseworthy efforts to reach a quay and a batch of Customs officers before eight o'clock, but failed by five minutes.

Dry agents have, of course, tried on several occasions to verify this suspicion; their praiseworthy efforts have met, for the most part, with scant success.

Relieved of their first anxiety about their father, the girls insensibly relaxed their praiseworthy efforts a little, and began to fall back into old ways.

Praiseworthy efforts were made in her interest, but the performance only produced £130.