Do you think you can make a tremendous, gigantic, supreme effort and stay right here, just for a few minutes?

Jackie Quinn just stood there, made a supreme physical effort to stay upright.

He seemed lost in reflection, his brow knitted, as though with some supreme mental effort.

Sylvia Fernald made a supreme physical effort when she saved you, but it was too much for her.

Sloth, or anything less than supreme effort, was never acceptable.

It was only by a supreme physical effort that she regained control of herself.

Making one last supreme effort, she put her free arm round it, bracing herself to hang on until that, too, collapsed.

With the most supreme effort she had ever made, she thought of him as the patient.

All that painting, the supreme physical and mental effort seems to have regenerated me.

But Harry felt all the time that these were not supreme efforts.