| 1. | Woodhouse soon followed and the necessity of exertion made him composed. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 2. | His native activity found many more objects for its exertion than before. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 3. | A few minutes more of silent exertion enabled him to proceed with composure. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 4. | I should have considered it as part of my duty, and the exertion would soon have been nothing. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 5. | "I think I have," replied Elinor, with an exertion of spirits, which increased with her increase of emotion. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 6. | Saying this, he endeavoured to spring from the bed, but the exertion was too great for him he fell back and fainted. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 7. | Her mind was so much weakened that she still fancied present exertion impossible, and therefore it only dispirited her more. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 8. | He had performed an act of duty made an exertion felt his own strength to do and deny, and was on better terms with himself. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 9. | pleasure and exertion But to their purpose shall they ne'er attain. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 10. | Churchill's making incredible exertions to avoid it. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 11. | His exertions had quickened his breathing, but he felt strong and joyful. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 12. | Literature, its exertions and objects, were now of little moment in my regard. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 13. | I writhed, and made spasmodic exertions to force open the lid it would not move. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 14. | Weston's sanguine temper was a blessing on all his upright and honourable exertions but Mr. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 15. | Sherlock Holmes recovered from the strain caused by his immense exertions in the spring of '. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 16. | Tom was panting with his exertions by this time. - from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
| 17. | "The tremendous exertions which I have gone through during the last day or two have worn me out. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 18. | OUR morning's exertions had been too much for my weak health, and I was tired out in the afternoon. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |