1 Such eye-wrinkles are very effectual in a scowl.
2 The white people won't stand this sort of thing, and whether they be insulted as individuals are as a race, the response will be prompt and effectual.
3 The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
4 Even Heyward and David were furnished with weapons; nor was ammunition wanting to render them all effectual.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 12 5 Magua had early discovered that in retaining the person of Alice, he possessed the most effectual check on Cora.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27 6 And there can be no more effectual means for checking calumny than by affording ample facilities for impeachment, which is as useful in a commonwealth as the other is pernicious.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII. 7 Now, to meet these difficulties and their attendant disorders, there is no more potent, effectual, wholesome, and necessary remedy than to slay the sons of Brutus.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI. 8 And no other system of defence could have been at once so safe, so strong, and so effectual.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI. 9 And of all the three causes which create a prepossession in a man's favour, none is so effectual as this last.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXIV. 10 My watchfulness has been effectual; and though I certainly should be a more interesting object to all my acquaintances were I distractedly in love with him, I cannot say that I regret my comparative insignificance.
11 I heard a very warm debate between two professors, about the most commodious and effectual ways and means of raising money, without grieving the subject.
12 It is first agreed and settled among them, what suspected persons shall be accused of a plot; then, effectual care is taken to secure all their letters and papers, and put the owners in chains.
13 Beaufort had taken effectual measures to conceal himself, and it was ten months before my father discovered his abode.
14 Physical compulsion or restraint was effectual, of course, while it lasted.
15 Athelstane shared his captivity, his bridle having been seized, and he himself forcibly dismounted, long before he could draw his weapon, or assume any posture of effectual defence.