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We strive desperately again: the whole web vibrates with the effort; it will break beneath our strength.
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She didn't resemble Luc, Gaynor thought, striving desperately for a natural reaction.
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She faced him standing at the door, striving desperately for self-control.
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She sat down again at the table, striving desperately for self-control.
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She sat quite silent, feeling her heart quicken, striving desperately to be calm.
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It's too late, he broke off, striving desperately to regain composure.
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She sat alone during the afternoon, striving desperately to nerve herself for the ordeal.
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She drew herself together, striving desperately to subdue her agitation.
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Doris sat with the lantern in her hands, striving desperately to control her nervous excitement.
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He was striving desperately to keep his self-control.
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After a full minute the announcer spoke, his voice striving desperately to be as impersonal as ever.
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Mrs. Haxton, pallid, striving desperately to regain her self-possession, draped herself artistically in a comfortable camp chair.
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Alive one could have striven against him, striven desperately, although Carruthers had always been rather a proposition.
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"Your suggestion is admirable," he cried, striving desperately to affect a careless complaisance.
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That glimpse of Hayti would remain with him, he thought, yet within the hour he was striving desperately to hold it.
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But a criminal saw himself guilty of a large part in the disaster the two heroical souls were striving desperately to repair.