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1
Among the
spasmodic
efforts
at reform made under Louis XVI.
2
A few
spasmodic
efforts
were made to carry on, but the light-heartedness was gone.
3
The pair watched its
spasmodic
efforts
at escape with a great deal of gusto.
4
But these
spasmodic
efforts
of the democrats speedily failed.
5
You think of throwing off your clothes by one or two
spasmodic
efforts
,
-
leaning
in
the intervals against the bedpost.
6
The man, by
spasmodic
efforts
,
holds the boat against the wind for a minute, and then loses his control.
7
Freeze's drawing-room hours on end, glowering at Miss Davidson in a silence broken by
spasmodic
efforts
at forced talk.
8
My elder brothers, after a few
spasmodic
efforts
,
gave up all hopes of me-theyeven ceased to scold me.
9
There have been many of these, but with all allowance for
spasmodic
efforts
,
the general drift has been always downward.
10
For many years there have been sporadic and
spasmodic
efforts
to extend the influence of Buddhism or other Indian cults.
11
It had been, by and large, a singularly speechless day, which my
spasmodic
efforts
at entertainment had failed to cheer.
12
It is by no weak, sickly, faint-hearted, lukewarm, languid, and
spasmodic
efforts
that the cause is to be kept alive.
13
During the first two or three years he occasionally had periods of passionate remorse, and made
spasmodic
efforts
toward better things.
14
Even our
spasmodic
efforts
at reform fail ludicrously for lack of leaders unaffiliated with "the thing to be reformed."
15
He was seated on the ice, making
spasmodic
efforts
to smile, but anguish was depicted on every lineament of his countenance.
16
Evidently the work of a scholar, it indulges in none of those
spasmodic
efforts
of eloquence which are the joy of the newspaper correspondent.
spasmodic
efforts
spasmodic
effort