The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.

The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.

The effect of the hurricane was a devastated landscape.

patchwork […] introduced for oratorical effect

The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place.

The effect of flying was most convincing.

The colored bands of color that strobe through much of the text and other visual elements are perhaps the most prototypical of all Amiga demoscene effects and, again, are a direct result of the hardware on which Megademo was created to run.

I use an echo effect here to make the sound more mysterious.

His Goods, Family, and all his Effects were also ſeiz'd every where, and his Family carried into Priſon.

The best way to effect change is to work with existing stakeholders.

The punishment for sodomy, when completely effected, was death, and it was frequently inflicted.

The transfer by tender of some 1,300 mail bags was effected smartly, and the "Ocean Mails Special" train was ready at 9.19 a.m.

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