1 Fixing her with my eye in a way which I always found effective with women, I asked her at what hour her son returned.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO 2 They were not the leafy words of an effective life, young with energy and belonging to the tree.
3 But outwardly he began to be effective.
4 This is a very common and much-approved matrimonial course of treatment, which is often very effective.
5 His only accomplice was one who could never give him away, and the grotesque, inconceivable nature of the device only served to make it more effective.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 15. A Retrospection 6 This also you cleared up in a very effective way, though I had already come to the same conclusions from my own observations.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 15. A Retrospection 7 It was, at least, absolutely effective.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 15. A Retrospection 8 It was a simple trick, but exceedingly effective.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ 9 If the Negro was to learn, he must teach himself, and the most effective help that could be given him was the establishment of schools to train Negro teachers.
10 Political defence is becoming less and less available, and economic defence is still only partially effective.
11 After making a careful examination of the place, it seemed to be just the location that we wanted in order to make our work effective and permanent.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter VIII. 12 I find that the most effective medicine for such individuals is administered at first in the form of a story, although I never tell an anecdote simply for the sake of telling one.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XV. 13 The beginning of the poem he praised with great generosity: he even found the idea original and effective.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 14 Most of my readers are aware that the second act of "Parisina" opens with the celebrated and effective duet in which Parisina, while sleeping, betrays to Azzo the secret of her love for Ugo.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 34. The Colosseum. 15 And this time it must be confessed that, contrary to the usual state of affairs in discussions between the young men, the effective arguments were all on Albert's side.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 38. The Compact.