1
Fanny bit her lip in a vain effort to retain her solemnity.
2
It seemed a vain effort, but a way had to be found.
3
He stood still in a vain effort to make the words come.
4
How pitiful the vain effort of Blair's people to hide their horror!
5
Two months passed away in the vain effort to obtain employment.
6
He peered into the moonlight in a vain effort to see.
7
He twisted and squirmed in a vain effort to free himself.
8
Her parching tongue moved in a vain effort to moisten them.
9
This has been the vain effort of Hindu speculation for ages.
10
His lip quivered with the vain effort to ask an explanation.
11
Diana's lips trembled in the vain effort to repress a smile.
12
She made one more vain effort and then burst into tears.
13
To try that after nightfall he imagined would be vain effort.
14
The good-natured stewardess bustled about in a vain effort to find Mr. Carey Mayo.
15
His lips fell apart in the vain effort to answer.
16
Probably fifty thousand lost their lives in the vain effort.
